piece for realization [Otherwise: You are a spectator, only], 1964

Title

piece for realization [Otherwise: You are a spectator, only] (Original Title)

Artist

• Arthur Köpcke

Period Produced

• 20th century

School

• conceptual art

Object Type

• painting (artwork)

Physical Description

Collage on fibreboard

Material

• wood
• paper

Technique

• collage

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Contemporary Art 1945-present

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Eigentum des Städelschen Museums-Vereins e.V.

Picture Copyright

© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

Acquisition

Acquired in 2013 with funds from the Städelkomitee 21. Jahrhundert, property of Städelscher Museums-Verein e.V.

Genre

• collage

Main Motif

• man
• woman
• body (human)
• body part (human)
• animal
• plant

Associated Medium

• Stern, Zeitschrift

Primary

• 41D92 woman (showing herself) undressed, quasi-nude
• 31D15 adult woman
• 31D14 adult man
• 31A22 parts of the human body (skeleton excepted)

Secondary

• 49L1 letters, alphabet, script
• 25G41(TULIP) flowers: tulip
• 25F34 owls
• 25F36(GOOSE) water-birds: goose
• 41C653 fruit
• 41C652 vegetables
• 41C743 cigarette
• 41A771 container of metal: bucket, can, canister, drum, tin
• 43C521 chess
• 48C5142 picture within picture
• 49D342(RECTANGLE) regular quadrilateral (RECTANGLE)
• 24D stars
• 49D32 line (~ planimetry, geometry)