Gerlinde Beck was deeply inspired by the expressive dancer Dore Hoyer. Beginning in 1964, she created statuesque, vertically striving, then also inclined and twisted column and pipe forms, which the artist soberly called "stelae", but in which the reference to the human body with torso, head and limbs clearly resonates. From 1969 Beck designs "tube landscapes."
The figures created in the early 1980s in homage to Oskar Schlemmer, Josephine Baker and Dore Hoyer, iron dance choreographies, lines of movement solidified in steel and acrylic paint, balancing acts rotating around their central axis, oscillating between stability and instability, gain a maximum of expressiveness. The three-dimensional works of the following years lead away from the figure, towards movement in space and finally to the suspension of the body volume.