Erwin Hauer (born 1926) is an Austrian-born American sculptor who studied first at Vienna's Academy of Applied Arts and later under Josef Albers at Yale. Hauer was an early proponent of Modular Constructivism and an associate of Norman Carlberg. Like Carlberg, he was especially known for his minimalist, repetitive pieces in the 1950s and 1960s.
According to ribabookshops.com, Hauer's sculptures are in many public collections, including those of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Museum of the National Academy of Design, and others. Erwin Hauer is Professor Emeritus at the Yale University School of Art, where he taught from 1957 until 1990.
Hauer's design studio in New Haven, Connecticut is well known for the production of sculptural, light-diffusing architectural screens and walls employing Hauer's modular style.
We have gathered around the table
To cleanse our weapons
Of the blood of deceivers
We killed in the battle of steel
But now this is reality
Fantasy is gone
We now prepare our minds
For the iron war
In the sign of the wizard
We will ride to victory
The banner of destruction
Our enemies will fear
(In the) iron war iron war
The philosophy of metal will prevail
We now let our spirits fly
Like an eagle in the sky
Across the mountains and the sea
We are flying high
People of the world
Come and face your doom
Warriors of metal
Are coming to you soon