Pirna Sculpture Summer 2022/23
We, the Sächsische SANDSTEINWERKE, are also involved and support this outstanding regional project.
Every year, an art exhibition takes place on the Sonnenstein high above the city of Pirna, which is probably unique in its kind. Below the castle, in the bastions of the former fortification, an exciting interplay of colossal defensive architecture and figurative art can be seen.
Canaletto in honor
The 300th birthday of the painter Bernardo Bellotto, gen. Canaletto (1722 - 1780), the Pirna Sculpture Summer is showing "Symbols in Stone". Thanks to the Sandsteinwerke Pirna, the Zwingerbauhütte Dresden and sixteen contemporary sculptors from Germany, original baroque works such as putti and mythological figures are juxtaposed with stone sculptures of the present day. This creates particularly appealing lines of tension between the sculptures, as well as profound allegories that illuminate both the outward appearances and the inner essence of being human. Special attention is paid to the material stone.
With works from the Dresden Zwinger by Paul Egell, Christian Kirchner, Johann Joachim Kretzschmar, Balthasar Permoser and others.
Participating artists: Lothar Beck, Marguerite Blume-Cárdenas, Ralf Ehmann, Konstanze Feindt Eißner, Ursula Güttsches, Knut Hüneke, Matthias Jackisch, Susanne Knorr, Peter Makolies, Emerita Pansowová, Joachim Sauter, Michael Schoenholtz, Klaus Schwabe, Jörg Steinert, Bernd Stöcker, Werner Stötzer.
Visits are possible from May 29 to September 25, 2022, always Wednesday to Sunday and on holidays from 1 p.m. or as part of the public bastion tour of the TouristService Pirna.
A project of the city of Pirna and the Kultur- und Tourismusgesellschaft Pirna mbH