Ulrich Ruckriem
Sandstone (Oxford)
About this artwork
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artist:Ulrich Ruckriem (born 1938) German
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title:Sandstone (Oxford)
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date created:1976
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materials:2 sandstone blocks
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measurements:80.00 x 80.00 x 80.00 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Gifted in 2011 by Nicholas Serota
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accession number:GMA 5143
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Ulrich Ruckriem
Ulrich Ruckriem
German sculptor, Ulrich Ruckriem began his career as an apprentice stonemason in Düren, from 1957-9, and as an assistant at the Cologne Dombauhütte (Cathedral workshop), from 1960-1. This early experience of working with stone informed much of his work as a sculptor and in the mid-1960s he began...