
Eight Stacked Beams
Carel VisserWW-1964-012064
1964·welding on iron (metal)·height: 100 cm, length: 72.2 cm, width: 173 cm, thickness: 12.2 cm, weight: 241 cm, length: 123.2 cm, width: 25.5 cm
Rijksmuseum / Public Domain
Catalogue
- Year
- 1964
- Medium
- welding on iron (metal)
- Dimensions
- height: 100 cm, length: 72.2 cm, width: 173 cm, thickness: 12.2 cm, weight: 241 cm, length: 123.2 cm, width: 25.5 cm
- Collection
- Rijksmuseum
- Artist
- Carel Visser
Artist

Carel Visser
Sculpture
Carel Visser was a Dutch sculptor working primarily in welded steel and bronze during the postwar period. His abstract forms combined constructivist geometry with organic, biomorphic shapes, creating a distinctive bridge between industrial material and natural volume. Based in the Netherlands, Visser developed a rigorous formal language that engaged with the possibilities of steel as both structural and expressive medium. His work remained rooted in abstraction throughout his career, avoiding both figurative representation and purely geometric reduction.
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- Carel Visser
- Year
- 1964
- Medium
- welding on iron (metal)
- Dimensions
- height: 100 cm, length: 72.2 cm, width: 173 cm, thickness: 12.2 cm, weight: 241 cm, length: 123.2 cm, width: 25.5 cm
- Watts ID
- WW-1964-012064
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- Collection
- Rijksmuseum
- Source
- rijksmuseum
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