© Estate of Rudolf Hoflehner
Currently not on view
Human Condition,
1960
Rudolf Hoflehner, Austrian, 1916–1995
y1968-534
Made in 1960, Human Condition fuses elements of man and machine, expressing the artist's—and the era's—concern with the symbiotic yet fraught relationship between the social and industrial worlds. The artist did not coat the iron: he intended the work to rust, demonstrating that even this cyborg is vulnerable to the ravages of time.
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Title
Human Condition
Dates
1960
Maker
Medium
Cast iron
Dimensions
250 × 111.8 × 45.7 cm (98 7/16 × 44 × 18 in.)
base: 89.2 × 50.5 cm (35 1/8 × 19 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Stanley J. Seeger Jr., Class of 1952
Object Number
y1968-534
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Stanley J. Seeger Jr.; 1968 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.
- The Stanley J. Seeger Jr. collection on special exhibition during June 1961, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 1961)., no. 95
- Alfreda J. Murck, "Acquisitions 1968", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 27, no. 2 (1968): p. 94-105., p. 94
- Karin Dienst, ed., Sculpture of Princeton University: including works from the John B. Putnam Jr. Memorial Collection, (Princeton, NJ: Published by the Office of Communications, in association with the Princeton University Art Museum, 2004)., p. 8-9 (illus.)
