Susanne Kraißer

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Overview

Wing beat, 2022

Bronze, patinated
89 × 29 × 24 cm
Ex.-Nr. 1/8
Signed, dated and numbered
Guss: Kunstgießerei Kirchner & Schappinger, Ascholding
Provenance:
Studio of the artist

About the artist

The works of the sculptor Susanne Kraißer, born in Rosenheim in 1977, are in the tradition of figurative sculpture. Her main subject is the classical subject of sculpture and sculpture: the human figure. Kraißer concentrates on the female body. In individual figures, created in series (e.g. Mädchen mit Mini, since 2011; An der Wasserkante, since 2011; Kleine Sitzende, since 2016) or as a singular figure, she primarily thematises formal and essential contrasts such as stability and instability or block-like mass and fragile body formation. In recent years, Kraißer has realised several couple depictions as well as individual figures combined with depictions of fruit or flowers.

Susanne Kraißer's bronze sculptures are classic and yet they surprise with new formal inventions, new possibilities of presentation and their very own aesthetics. Kraißer's favourite material is bronze, which she patinates in different ways.

After training as a wood sculptor in Munich, Susanne Kraißer studied fine sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg under Professor Christian Höpfner (2001/02 class prize of the Höpfner sculpture class; master student since 2003) and from 2006 fine art, specialising in sculpture, at the University of the Arts in Bremen under Professor Bernd Altenstein (master student in 2008). Since then, the sculptor has worked as a freelance artist. Her work has been honoured with numerous solo exhibitions, including the exhibition Zweite Bronzezeit (2018) at the Ostholstein-Museum, Eutin.
"Flapping wings"
Feathers symbolise the personality of the dreamer. This bronze sculpture of a standing young woman is a rising dreamer who, light as a feather, leaves other things behind her and will soon fly away free as a bird, so close to the sky.
The dream of flying, of freedom and boundlessness is concentrated in the depiction on a few feathers and the transparent colours between light blue and turquoise blue. It symbolises longing, vastness and transcendence between heaven and earth, between air and water.
The meaning of the colours is usually culturally very contrary, e.g. in Christian cultures the colour white refers to purity and innocence, but in large parts of Africa white stands for great misfortune. The associations with light blue are surprisingly similar around the world. "The heart in heaven, heaven in the heart" is attributed to Lao Tzu, for example. (Susanne Kraißer)