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Entelechie I
Entelechie I

Entelechie I

Artist (1927 - 2018)
Date1960
MediumSteel
Dimensions106 x 90 x 90 cm
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery. Donated by the German Arts Council, Köln, 1965. © The Estate of Friedrich Werthmann.
Object number1243
DescriptionEntelechie I was shown in an exhibition of German sculpture at the Hugh Lane Gallery in 1963. The title – entelechy – refers to a philosophical understanding of that which makes actual what is otherwise merely potential. That is, the essence of something that transforms it from mere stuff or matter, or in the case of a living organism, the soul.
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