Prima vista s/w. 1979.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated on folded canvas. 145 x 120 cm (57 x 47.2 in). [JS].

• Large early composition chracterized by a striking minimalist concentration.
• In the early 1980s the Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim and the Kunstverein Brunswick showed important solo shows with works from this early period of creation.
• Today his works are in many public collections like the Hambuger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, and the Museum Folkwang, Essen.
• In 2012 the MKM Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, showed a grand solo show under the title "Ulrich Erben. Lust und Kalkül".

PROVENANCE: Galerie Schellmann & Klüser, Munich (with a label on the stretcher).
Private collection Northern Germany.

"Imagination lives on what I see. Ideas come from the material I work with, from the format, the surface, from what seems negligible."
U. Erben, quote from: Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Munich 1996, p. 2.