Damnatz sculpture garden
The Damnatz sculpture garden is located in Damnatz in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in Lower Saxony in the Elbe Valley . The artist park, which is 10,000 square meters in size, shows 30 large sculptures on the open-air site and art exhibitions, readings and concerts take place in a former barn.
Damnatz sculpture garden
In 1994 the artist couple Monika Müller-Klug and Klaus Müller-Klug founded the "Damnatz Sculpture Garden" with the support of the Foundation for Sculpture. The site of the sculpture garden is a former parish garden located directly on the Elbe in the Lower Saxony Elbe valley in the village of Damnatz . To date, there are 30 large sculptures by 10 different artists on the 10,000 square meter site. Many works of art were specially developed for the location, others were given an appropriate environment through planting and soil movements. Lines of sight guide the visitor from one sculpture to another. In addition to the works of Monika and Klaus Müller-Klug, works by the artists Otto Almstadt, Gerson Fehrenbach , Hartmut Stielow , Hannes Meinhard , Georg Seibert, Janez Lenassi and Erich Reischke are represented.
A collection from the fields of sculpture, painting and installation is being created in a former barn converted into an exhibition and event space. Works by Ilja Heinig, Bert Dürkopp, Hans Schohl, Johannes Pfeiffer, Klaus Müller-Klug, Monika Müller-Klug and Peter Herbrich can currently be seen there. The building is used as a location for art exhibitions, concerts and readings at regular intervals.
Artistic statement
The aim of the Damnatz sculpture garden is a dialogue between works by friends and artists who are connected to one another and who deal with nature - a synthesis of forms made of stone, wood, steel and cultivated nature in a contemporary form. The works are integrated into the cultivated landscape and are related to the garden forms and plants. It is a successful composition of the nature park and visual arts.
For Martin Sperlich , the former director of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg , it is a garden that “ consists of the ground with its relief of trees, bushes, meadows and water and works of art. It is absolutely admirable that the enormous physical and mental work, the huge financial expenditure is not expressed in visible effort, but is given to everyone in light and airy freedom. "According to a statement by Lothar Romain , the former President of the Berlin University of the Arts , the sculpture garden stands in the tense relationship of art objects whose" reflection in the shadow of the dike and in a lavish nature sometimes with sky and clouds, sometimes with rising groundwater " .
literature
- Klaus and Monika Müller-Klug and the Circle of Friends (ed.): Beautiful prospects. Damnatz sculpture garden on the Elbe. With texts and a. by Prof. Lothar Romain, Prof. Hans Martin Sperlich and Ludwig Zerull , 2003, ISBN 978-3-9810105-5-8 .
- Viktoria von dem Bussche : Man, Art and the Garden. Art in garden design. Eugen Ulmer, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8001-5332-9 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 12.8 " N , 11 ° 10 ′ 43.3" E