Burnt Man
Basciano profiles artist Frans Krajcberg who witnessed destruction on industrial scales and turned it into eloquent sculpture. Krajcberg, who died in 2017, described himself as an angry man. His art, though beautiful in form and poetic in imagery, was a manifestation of that fury. He was born in Pol...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Art review (London, England) England), 2023-04, Vol.75 (3), p.54 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Basciano profiles artist Frans Krajcberg who witnessed destruction on industrial scales and turned it into eloquent sculpture. Krajcberg, who died in 2017, described himself as an angry man. His art, though beautiful in form and poetic in imagery, was a manifestation of that fury. He was born in Poland in 1921 to a Jewish family, his mother a communist activist, and saw the majority of his relatives exterminated in Nazi concentration camps. He himself escaped east, and took a degree at Leningrad State University that combined art and engineering, a pairing that would come in handy when his later organic sculptures increased in scale and became architectural in ambition. During the 28-month Siege of Leningrad, he managed to slip out of the city with his girlfriend, a first love who, as they weaved between enemy lines, was killed in the forests beyond Minsk. |
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ISSN: | 1745-9303 |