Basic Information
Title: Untitled from Werkgruppe DRAKULA (Untitled from the Dracula Series)
Artist(s):
Herbert W. Franke
Date Created: 1971
Framed Dimensions: 11 x 14.5 in.
Unframed Dimensions: 8.25 x 11 in.
Medium: Plotter drawing on paper
Inventory ID: Franke-1971-02
Description
signed lower right
programmed by Josef Vordermaier
From a series of works entitled DRAKULA. The name refers to the computer program that generated the images; ‘DRAchenKUrven, überLAgert’ translated into English is ‘Dragon curves, superimposed’. The program was written by computer scientist Josef Vordermaier in collaboration with Franke. Dragon curves are a type of mathematical fractal, whose formula Franke used to structure his graphics.
Detail images of the work
signed lower right programmed by Josef Vordermaier From a series of works entitled DRAKULA. The name refers to the computer program that generated the images; ‘DRAchenKUrven, überLAgert’ translated into English is ‘Dragon curves, superimposed’. The program was written by computer scientist Josef Vordermaier in collaboration with Franke. Dragon curves are a type of mathematical fractal, […]
a serigraph created after an original computer generated unique plotter drawing signed lower right in graphite numbered 87/100 lower left in graphite programed by Georg Färber “Herbert Franke created this work with the assistance of Georg Färber. Färber had access to the computer systems at the University of Munich and wrote the computer program based […]
a serigraph after a photograph of an original unique computer-generated image signed lower right in graphite numbered 88/100 lower left in graphite hardware: Demo-Gerät (demonstration-set) analog computer output device: cathode-ray oscillograph “This picture is from the series ‘Dance of the Electrons’. In 1962 Franke produced the image using his analogue computer called Demo-Gerät (demonstration-set) and […]
a serigraph after a photograph of an original unique computer-generated image signed lower right in graphite numbered 75/100 lower left in graphite hardware: Demo-Gerät (demonstration-set) analog computer output device: cathode-ray oscillograph “This picture is from the series ‘Dance of the Electrons’. In 1962 Franke produced the image using his analogue computer called Demo-Gerät (demonstration-set) and […]
