Publisher's Synopsis
In the 1950s, Ruth Baumgarte came into close contact with the steel industry. Fascinated by the enormous machines and especially the laborers who commanded these, she created a series of roughly seventy works between 1952 and 1968. With these pieces, she created a lasting monument-sensitive, unpretentious, and dignified-to the laborers, impressively documenting the reconstruction of heavy industry as an integral part of the German "economic miracle."
