Uhlmann, Hans. Agression I. Third design for the sculpture in front of the Stuttgart University Library. 1959. iron, black patina. Dimensions: 32.5 x 45 x 30 cm. Lehmann-Brockhaus 181: Inscribed here as "Aggression I - 3. Entwurf zur Skulptur vor der Bibliothek der Technischen Hochschule in Stuttgart", which is considered "lost". - This unrealized model was one of three designs on a scale of 1:7.5 that Hans Uhlmann (1900-1975) presented to the architect of the new library building, Hans Volkart, and the Stuttgart government building officer Schilling in his Berlin studio in October 1959. In contrast to the ultimately realized monumental brass construction "Aggression I" from 1961, which was cast by the Berlin foundry Noack and erected in Stuttgart in the summer of 1962 after fierce controversy in "all silence and in the smallest of circles" (see Bärbel Küster. Kunst und Konsens 1958 - 1962: Zur Ankaufsgeschichte der Plastik von Hans Uhlmann für die Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart), the present design seems to anticipate Uhlmann's "Kopf-Fetische". - Uhlmann, who had successfully studied mechanical engineering before studying sculpture, also remained true to his preferred materials of iron, steel and wire as an artist. The "engineer of sculptural form" (Waldemar Grzimek) presented a series of geometric heads at the Fritz Gurlitt Gallery as early as 1930. After his arrest during an anti-fascist leafleting campaign in 1933 and his imprisonment in Berlin-Tegel until 1935, his works were defamed as "degenerate". After the war, he exhibited his constructive metal sculptures at the Gerd Rosen Gallery in 1945. He was awarded the Berlin Art Prize in 1950 and appointed head of the sculpture class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. His works were shown at international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale in 1954, the exhibition "The New Decade" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955, the World Exhibition in Brussels in 1957 and the first three documenta exhibitions. He is currently being honored in a major retrospective at the Berlinische Galerie, which pays tribute to him as one of the "most important sculptors and draughtsmen of West German post-war modernism", whose works are represented in numerous national and international collections, while his sculptures still characterize public spaces in Germany and abroad today. - The work has two very small indentations, is somewhat rubbed in places and shows signs of rust. - Provenance: Berlin private collection.