Walter Pichler (1 October 1936, Deutschnofen, Italy – 16 July 2012 Burgenland, Austria) was an Austrian sculptor, artist, architect and designer.
His Prototypen (prototypes) series, presented in 1967, include his portable TV-Helm, (TV helmets, or living rooms) and his Großer Raum, a pneumatic sculpture.
[6][7][8] Pichler exhibited his work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1967, at the Biennale de Paris, and in Documenta 4 in 1968 in Kassel with three of his Prototypen pieces including Fusion von Kugeln.
[9] In 1972 Pichler bought an old farm in Sankt Martin an der Raab in southern Burgenland where he lived and worked for the rest of his life.
[6][10] Pichler worked extremely slowly, sometimes it took decades to complete a sculpture as he first made many sketches, scale drawings and plans, and then build models.