Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, Ein Schauspiel, 3X
1998-2001
Sculptor, American, 1936 - 2024


East Building Lawn, East
Artwork overview
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Medium
stainless steel, aluminum, painted fiberglass, and carbon fiber
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 944.9 x 1188.7 x 1036.3 cm (372 x 468 x 408 in.) gross weight: 20000 lb.
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Accession
2001.90.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist by NGA; purchased 2 August 2001.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2000
Landi, Ann. “Beach Hats and Band Shells.” Art News 99, no. 6 (June 2000): 130.
2001
Fields, Suzanne. “Stella’s Artistic Spirit Triumphs Over the Taliban.” Times Herald Record [Middleton, NY] (December 18, 2001): syndicated column, Washington Times.
Gopnik, Blake. “Frank Stella on Shaping an Aesthetic” [Interview with the artist]. Washington Post (December 16, 2001).
Vogel, Carol. “Frank Stella’s Sculpture” (Inside Art). New York Times (December 14, 2001).
Puenta, Maria. “Sculpture Swoops into D.C.” USA Today (December 12, 2001).
Russell, John. “Frank Stella Builds a Landmark Out of Romanticism and Steel: A Monumental Sculpture Is Headed for Washington.” New York Times (May 17, 2001): E1, color repro. (Correction issued May 22, 2001.)
Müller, Ulrich and Ana-Maria Ehrmann-Schinlbeck. Heinrich von Kleist by Frank Stella: Werkverzeichnis der Heinrich von Kleist-Serie. (Minerva, Jenaer Schriften zur Kunstgeschichte, 11.) Köln, 2001: 192-193, color repro.
Gopnik, Blake. “Frank Stella’s Twisted Prince of a Sculpture.” Washington Post (December 11, 2001): C-1, C-8, repro., color repro.
Shaw-Eagle, Joanna. “Spectacular ‘Prince’ Rises.” Washington Times (October 27, 2001): color repro.
Hosefros, Paul. “It May Look Like a Big Bunch of Metal, But There’s a Prince in There Somewhere.” New York Times (September 1, 2001): repro.
Van Gelder, Lawrence. “Stella Sculpture to Get Its Own Washington Space.” New York Times (May 23, 2001).
Lewis, Jo Ann. “Stella Sculpture to Land at National Gallery.” Washington Post (May 18, 2001): C1, C6, color repro.
2002
Gopnik, Blake. “’Unititled’: Art by No Other Name.” Washington Post (January 4, 2002): C7, column 3, color repro.
Smith, Roberta. “Frank Stella Pops Up All Over.” New York Times (January 8, 2002): AR-1, repro.
2003
Cohen, Jean Lawlor. “3-D Thrills: Looking for Big-Time Contemporary Sculpture in All the Right Places.” _Where Washington _ (June 2003): 12, 13, color repro.
2004
Ottmann, Klaus. “Frank Stella’s Prince of Ambiguity.” Sculpture 23, no. 5 (June 2004): 34-39, color repros.
2011
Ottmann, Klaus. “A Conversation with Frank Stella: Action and Spatial Engagement.” Sculpture 30, no. 3 (April 2011): 26-27, 29, color repro.
2013
Cigola, Francesca. Art Parks: A Tour of America’s Sculpture Parks and Gardens. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2013: 101.
Wikidata ID
Q63861773