Retrospective at the Moritzburg Art Museum
In 2022, the Moritzburg Art Museum in Halle (Saale) paid tribute to the life's work of Anna Franziska Schwarzbach – one of the defining German sculptors of her generation. The exhibition presented sculptural works spanning five decades: from early figurative realism to condensed forms in which memory, the body, and time become tangible material.
The show presented works by Anna Franziska Schwarzbach (*1949) from five decades – sculptures and portraits shaped by memory, history, and personal experience. Her figures appear physically immediate and at the same time highly charged. Schwarzbach’s sculptural language remains clear and concentrated: expression rather than ornament.
A focus was placed on iron and bronze sculptures. Many of these works were created in close collaboration with the Lauchhammer Art Foundry, which has been her technical partner since the 1980s and has cast numerous of her pieces. The proximity between artistic vision and execution is directly legible in the surfaces.
Over the decades, a body of work has evolved that is formally restrained, conceptually dense, and unmistakably individual in its treatment of material.
