Rudolf Bucholt, Industrial Landscape Sculpture, 1960s, Metal

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Franz Buchholt sculpture — abstract industrial landscape, ca. 1960, a rare welded metal assemblage marked with the artist’s handwritten labels … Read more Franz Buchholt sculpture — abstract industrial landscape, ca. 1960, a rare welded metal assemblage marked with the artist’s handwritten labels “Franz Buchholt Aachen / Landschap.”

This compact sculpture (21 × 19 × 22 cm) is constructed from an assembly of machined metal components—cylinders, discs, rods, and capped elements—arranged on a freely modelled base. The work evokes an abstracted cityscape or mechanical topography, heightened by several elevated forms tipped with red patination. Buchholt’s tactile handling of welded steel creates a rhythmic verticality, giving the piece both architectural presence and a sense of improvised engineering.

The handwritten labels on the underside, including “Franz Buchholt Aachen” and “Landschap,” firmly link the piece to the German artist. The sculpture dates to around 1960, a period marked by strong postwar interest in industrial materials, Brutalist form language, and European modernist experimentation with welded assemblage.

About the Artist
Franz Buchholt (active mid-20th century, Aachen) remains a lesser-documented but regionally recognized German maker associated with small-scale welded constructions. His work resonates with contemporaries in the Rhineland who explored industrial remnants as sculptural vocabulary, echoing influences from Brutalism, Zero, and postwar Constructivist tendencies.

A characterful and atmospheric metal “landscape”—rare, authentic, and historically situated within early postwar German abstraction. This piece has an attribution mark,
I am sure that it is completely authentic and take full responsibility for any authenticity
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