Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, Ein Schauspiel, 3X
1998-2001
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View on museum website →Medium
stainless steel, aluminum, painted fiberglass, and carbon fiber
Dimensions
overall: 944.9 x 1188.7 x 1036.3 cm (372 x 468 x 408 in.) gross weight: 20000 lb.
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
Accession Number
2001.90.1
About the Artist
Frank Stella
Frank Stella, born on May 12, 1936, in Malden, Massachusetts, to first-generation Italian-American parents, grew up immersed in art from an early age. His father, a gynecologist who painted houses to fund medical school, enlisted young Stella in sanding and scraping tasks as an informal apprenticeship, while his mother, an artist who painted landscapes, further nurtured his creative inclinations. ...