Edition in bronze, cast in lost wax, chased by hand and patinated.

Wolfgang Knorr (1945)

Wolfgang Knorr (1945)

Wolfgang Knorr studied anatomical drawing at the Dresden Academy of Arts (with Prof. Bammes) from 1964 to 1966, followed by studies at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Industrial Design in Halle/Saale in the departments of metal design and metal and wood sculpture. From 1971 he worked as a freelance sculptor in Dresden, Berlin and Potsdam and held a teaching position at the Fachschule für Werbung und Gestaltung in Potsdam. In 1985 he moved to Baden-Württemberg, where he took on a teaching position for artistic work techniques at the Freie Kunstschule Nürtingen in 1988.

Over the next few years, he created a series of large sculptures for public spaces, such as the Anton Fürstenau Monument for the city of Herne (1989), a Noah's Ark for the city of Bünde (1991), and further versions of this theme for Potsdam (1993) and Süssen (2008).

Knorr works primarily in bronze and wood and focuses on architecture-related large-scale sculpture. His sculptures are mostly quite realistic, but at the same time characterized by satirical distortion and a humorous treatment of the given theme. This is also true of his "Euroesel," which in a first version was still called "Geldesel" and was created as a competition entry for a tax office. The sculpture is figuratively composed of symbols for the various types of tax - the wheel stands for car tax, the dog for dog tax, the ballet shoe for entertainment tax, and so on. The structure on the back of the animal, however, can be read quite ambiguously: As a sacral building (and thus as a symbol for the church tax) or also as the much-cited house of Europe, which makes life sour for him as a heavy burden.

Genres: Figurative
Styles: Classic Modern