Art Studio Elbe - Verband freischaffender Künstler.

Author - Brian Hawkeswood. Baroque Foundations in Stone Pirna’s historic core still bears the imprint of Baroque artistry—not just in its buildings, but in its sculptural details. In the former fortress Festung Sonnenstein, the Skulpturensommer exhibition places historic reliefs and busts—like those by Johann Kretzschmar, a student of the Baroque master Balthasar Permoser—directly alongside modern sculptures  . For example, a tambourin player and a granite “König David” (2010) frame visitors’ entrance, echoing centuries-old craftsmanship  . A Seasonal Symphony Since 2013, curator Christiane Stoebe has organized an annual sculpture summer high above Pirna, pairing modern works with medieval bastion architecture  . In 2025, the theme “Resonanz” unites 27 German and Czech artists, including Jan Hendrych and Waldemar Grzimek  . Displayed are works such as Livia Kubach & Michael Kropp’s Paarstein (2018, sandstone) and Grzimek’s thoughtful bronze Sitzender Alter (19...

 Author- Brian Hawkeswood.                                Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung. Each morning, on my walks, I would come across her—a bronze figure in a small park near the Elbe. No plaque, no inscription, and yet she possessed an unexpected presence. She stands balanced on the back of a great fish, as though surrendering to its silvery current, and in her hand she holds a cluster—of flowers, perhaps, or fruit—a quiet offering to time, to the river, to the town itself. I do not know who made her, or when. No documents seem to record her as official art, and yet she is art, patinated by rust, marked by the weather—made freer, perhaps, because of it. She gives the impression of having stood there since the first fish swam through the Elbe: timeless, unusual, almost speaking. And she speaks only through grace. She is the spirit of the river—not mythological in the grand sense, ...