Magdeburg Sculpture Park

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Life size Magdeburg by Heinz Breloh
Werra and Saale by Werner Stötzer

The Magdeburg Sculpture Park is a collection of sculptures from the Art Museum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg in Magdeburg's old town .

investment

The facility is located in the vicinity of the monastery of Our Dear Women. The sculpture park was created in 1989 while renaming the files kept by the Museum National Coalition small sculpture of the GDR in National Coalition plastic of the GDR . While it was initially limited to the immediate vicinity of the monastery, sculptures are now also in the area north of the Hundertwasserhaus , on the banks of the Elbe , in the area of the Elbe railway station up to the Magdeburg lift bridge and in the undeveloped area north of the monastery. The sculptures shown in the park have been continuously supplemented by further works since 1989, so that contemporary art is represented in all its diversity. A total of around 40 works by various artists will be shown.

Works (selection)

photo title year Artist
Käthe Kollwitz Magdeburg.JPG Käthe Kollwitz 1958/1988 Gustav Seitz
Ascending.JPG Ascending 1966/67 Fritz Cremer
Magdeburg Sculpture Park 2617.jpg Big striding man 1969 Wieland Förster
Magdeburg Sculpture Park 2629 crop.jpg Female swimmer 1969 Jenny Mucchi-Wiegmann
Inborn Power.JPG Inborn Power 1970 René Graetz
Large Neeberger figure.JPG Large Neeberger figure 1971 to 1974 and 1997 Wieland Förster
Cover-up II.JPG Hideout II 1979/80 Shang Hutter
Standing and resting group.JPG Standing and resting group 1979/85 Sabina Grzimek
EndzeitMD.JPG End time 1983 Helmut Lander
Werra and Saale.JPG Werra and Saale 1986 Werner Stötzer
The morning 1987 Anna Franziska Schwarzbach
Life size Magdeburg.JPG Life size Magdeburg 1995 Heinz Breloh
Art view1.JPG Art look 1996/1999 Dagmar Schmidt
Greenhouse.JPG Sculpture greenhouse 1996/2005 Johanna Bartl , Wieland Krause and Olaf Wegewitz
Chrysalis Magdeburg.JPG Chrysalis 1996/2006 Ian Hamilton Finlay
Sculpture of the holy Mechthild.jpg Saint Mechthild of Magdeburg 2007/08 Susan Turcot

Another artist represented in the sculpture park is Friedrich B. Henkel .

literature

  • Andreas Horneman, From so far up to here , QuadratArtVerlag Magdeburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-935971-53-9
  • Stahl, Johannes, 1999: On telescopes and viewpoints by Dagmar Schmidt, in: Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Kunstmuseum Sachsen-Anhalt (HG.): Extended happy future. The exhibition on the project Art ___ Saxony-Anhalt. Exhibition catalog

Web links

Commons : Sculpture Park Magdeburg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 35.8 "  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 13.5"  E