The present sheet from 1964 is one of six watercolor sheets that were originally intended for the Eisenwerke Baumgarte calendar edition of 1965, but were not used. The group of works goes far beyond the other calendar series due to its bright colors, condensed figure design and specific details that can only be found here, and is therefore considered an independent artistic group of works.

On this sheet, the artist not only depicts the work, but also allows its fascinating processes to emerge through special artistic means. Worker, tool and space are so densely arranged in the vertically applied pictorial space that they can no longer be distinguished. Rather, the composition seems like a collage that brings together independent, contrasting entities.

The watercolor that Ruth Baumgarte has used in her work since the mid-1940s appears in a new luminosity. Ruth Baumgarte lets red, yellow and blue - like people and machines - collide directly. The contrast makes the movement of the intensely working hands immediately clear. Particularly eye-catching are the expressively enlarged hands, which lift the picture to another level of reality. It becomes clear that the artist not only depicts the importance of mechanically working hands, but also puts the independent, free creative power of artists into the picture.

The artistic freedom that Ruth Baumgarte takes in the design of this sheet, among others, probably led to the fact that the sheet was not printed in the calendar. The hand motif appears again and again in her pictorial compositions from 1970 on as a symbolic or expressive element, see the chapter Future Fears 1975-1990.