Bildsäulen-Dreiergruppe, Architectural sculpture at Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart, Germany.
The Bildsäulen-Dreiergruppe consists of three steel pillars that rise 32 meters high, each wrapped in colored enamel bands arranged in circular patterns. The pillars are positioned near the entrance to the Mercedes-Benz Museum and can be viewed from different angles as you walk around them.
Swiss artist and architect Max Bill created this sculpture in 1989 as part of the Mercedes-Benz Museum art collection. The work reflects the period when geometric and industrial design elements were becoming central to public spaces.
The sculpture's ground plan echoes the Mercedes star, and its colour scheme follows a classical nine-part colour wheel: yellow, red and blue, each with two neighbouring intermediate tones. Because each pillar starts at a different colour value, the spectra run counter-clockwise, shifted by three modules per pillar, separated by narrow silvery steel bands.
The pillars are freely accessible next to the museum entrance and can be viewed from all sides. You will notice the color details best by walking around the sculpture and observing it from different angles.
Each of the three pillars displays a color wheel with nine distinct tones, starting from yellow, red, and blue with metallic steel bands separating them. The color sequence shifts from one pillar to the next in increasingly layered arrangements.
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