Frank Maasdorf

AI generated: The image shows a roughly hewn stone sculpture of a human head standing on a wooden pedestal. The sculpture has simple, abstracted facial features and looks antique.

"Sylvette", 1995/2015, sandstone, 47 × 19 × 19 cm | © Frank Maasdorf

Frank Maasdorf's materials are primarily wood and stone. The head, the human figure and the columnar form, which always has a naturalistic starting point derived from the figure, are central themes of his artistic work. In doing so, Maasdorf does not first ask about the motif, but examines the wood or stone to see what is in them, what could emerge from them.

"Frank Maasdorf represents an equally unconventional and independent position in contemporary figurative sculpture. The stimuli he has absorbed go far beyond what he has learnt. They are fed by his experience of the world and art, by the sculptural formations of classical modernism and Stone Age traditions, by the musicality of native Baroque sandstone sculpture and the coarsened formal language of Expressionism, by the measured perfection of ancient sculpture and the austere devotion of Romanesque figures or the mysteriousness of Asian or Indian sculptures."
- SIGRID WALTHER -

Dr Ralf Lunau, Mayor of Culture of the City of Dresden, and Sigrid Walther spoke at the opening on Friday 19 June at 8 pm.

The Leonhardi-Museum Dresden showed a Maasdorf retrospective with 19 stone sculptures, 14 wooden sculptures and 8 bronzes.

KI generiert: Das Bild zeigt einen Raum in einem Museum oder einer Galerie, in dem mehrere skulpturale Kunstwerke auf Sockeln ausgestellt sind. Der Raum ist schlicht mit Holzboden und weißen Wänden gestaltet, um die Werke in den Mittelpunkt zu stellen.

Biographical information
Frank Maasdorf was born in Dresden on 29 June 1950. in 1970, Maasdorf's studio in Dresden-Briesnitz hosted the first Standart exhibition entitled "Erster Standart-Raum", in which A. R. Penck and several other artists took part alongside Maasdorf. Maasdorf studied at the Dresden Art Academy from 1972 to 1977, graduating in 1977 under Gerd Jäger. He has lived as a freelance artist in Dresden since 1977. His works can be found in the Berlin National Gallery, the Dresden Sculpture Collection, the Chemnitz Municipal Art Collection, the Moritzburg Gallery in Halle and the Mannheim Art Collection, among others.

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