Max Sauk
"Art is Freedom"
Max Sauk, a dear friend of mine and Uncle to my girlfriend was born in Hamburg in 1929. After completing his apprenticeship as a carpenter he spent two years studying architecture followed by a further two years of private drawing lessons with A. Schneller's art studio. Between 1950 and 1955 he studied at The Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts and since this time he has worked as a freelance artist.
Max Sauk corresponds to the image of an artist evolved by the Italian Renaissance: He is at the same time a painter and sculptor, a graphic artist and wood carver, jeweller and potter, photographer and carpenter. There is indeed no limit to his fantasy and to the materials he uses; granite, marble, wood, bronze and iron. But also polyester, glass, fabric and clay.
Inspired by the spirit of the Mediterranean, Max's figures also reflect the 20th Century classism with clear structures and a calm, at times monumental, serenity. His sculptures are often allegories with archaic forms and of a magic-mythical character.
Max is a big, silent and serious man from the North, who, one will discover upon getting to know him, has a fine and innate sense of humour. In a very light and playful way he will change quite ordinary objects into pieces of art.
