Kunstgiesserei Lauchhammer Foundry and Kunstguss Lauchhammer Museum and Foundation
Director: Andreas Tietz
Curator: Inna Khegay
The Kunstgiesserei Lauchhammer Foundry, the oldest in Germany, is situated in picturesque ambient of Southern Brandenburg on the boundary with Saxony. This land of masters has been widely-known by its rich traditions of bronze and iron casting, glass and porcelain production.
The foundry Kunstgiesserei Lauchhammer has been operational since 1725. From 1780 the foundry steadily collected and kept the originals of sculpture models and forms created by famous German artists. At present the collection contains more than 2800 models from the past of casting history. Many of them were made by world famous sculptors, to name only two - Ferdinand Lepcke and Ernst Rietschel.
The Kunstguss Lauchhammer Museum offers a show of sculptural artworks of various genres and forms cast in the foundry in different times.
Nowadays The Kunstgiesserei Lauchhammer Foundry and The Kunstguss Lauchhammer Museum and Foundation has launched the “Land of Masters” project that aims to join tradition and the present. They invite artists to participate in exhibitions, festivals, master-classes. This year in June within the “Land of Masters” the Park of sculpture in Hohenbocha where the artwoks of a British sculptor will be presented.
Контакты / Contacts:
Инна Хегай
+7 985 776 1517, innakhegay@gmail.com, inana@list.ru
Kunstgussmuseum Lauchhammer
Schaudepot Bronzeschule
Freifrau-von-Löwendal-Straße 3
01979 Lauchhammer
3 A Kunstguß Lauchhammer GmbH
Betriebsstätte: *Freifrau-von-Löwendal-Straße* 01979 Lauchhammer
Verwaltungssitz: *Hauptstraße 2a* 01994 Drochow
www.kunstguss.de
www.kunstgussmuseum.de
