Accession Code: wu0196 Title: 3B Series I Date completed: 1968 Medium: Sculpture Material: Painted steel Height (mm): 2615 Width (mm): 3470 Depth (mm): 5020 Inscription: none Location Name: Rootes Building (rear) Location Description: Outside Location Floor: 0

Born in Germany, Schottlander came to Britain in 1939 and worked during the war as a welder. He later studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and set up his own workshop, becoming a full-time sculptor in 1963. He exhibited with the London group and at the ICA and had his first solo show in 1966. This confident and colourful work was chosen to provide interest in the space between the austere glass and white tiled walls of the Rootes buildings. It is a purely abstract work, as underlined in its title, and utilises industrial materials and methods of production. The variety in the shape and disposition of its separate elements draws attention to the spaces they create and gives the sculpture an elegant and assertive presence in its location.