Raumknoten 97/I. 1958.
Bronze with brown-green patina.
Koos P 102. Verso with the scratched signature and the inscription "RK 97". Ca. 43.8 x 71.1 x 36.5 cm (17.2 x 27.9 x 14.3 in).
[AM].
• Unique work.
• Since the mid 1950 Otto Herbert Hajek had developed his jagged dynamic structures that he calls "Raumknoten" (Space Knots).
• Part of the same Northern German private collection for 60 years.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne.
Private collection Northern Germany (acquired from the above in 1962).

EXHIBITION: 10 Jahre junger Westen, Städtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, October 26 - November 30, 1958, cat. no. 145 (there erroneously RK 90).
Die Neue Generation, Kunstverein Hanover, March 22 - April 26, 1959, cat. no. 80.
Ars viva Regensburg '59, Regensburg, July 6 - August 30, 1959, no cat. no.
Hajek, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, 1960, cat. no. 24.
Otto Herbert Hajek, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, July 2 - July 31, 1960, cat. no. 17.
Otto Herbert Hajek, Galerie 59, Aschaffenburg, 1961.
Peinture et sculpture contemporaines en Allemagne, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Sonderausstellung des Deutschen Künstlerbundes, September 30 - October 29, 1961, cat. no. 107.