Thursday 18 October 2012

Anybody's Buddha/The Glories of Walter Sachs


The most beloved sculpture in Weimar, Germany is the sunken Buddha of hometown hero Walter Sachs (born 1954). The black basalt piece is a must visit in the city’s cultural center on the Frauenplan, the site of Goethe’s National Museum. Opas (grandfathers) line up to give their Enkelinnen (granddaughters) a lift to the top of the statue.


Sachs is famous for his other public statues in Heilingstadt, Herbsleben, Erfurt, Pössneck, Fulda, Gotha and Jena. The state of Thuringen, smack in the center of Germany, is Sachs country, with private collections of his work competing for attention. He got his art diploma in 1981 in the Dresden Art School.
 
Sachs is famous for his other public statues in Heilingstadt, Herbsleben, Erfurt, Pössneck, Fulda, Gotha and Jena. The state of Thuringen, smack in the center of Germany, is Sachs country, with private collections of his work competing for attention. He got his art diploma in 1981 in the Dresden Art School.

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