page_title: Małgorzata Chodakowska
hierarchical_section_title: Małgorzata Chodakowska
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Malgorzata Chodakowska: Trauernden Mädchen am Tränenmeer, Signatur
context_page_description: Małgorzata Chodakowska is a Polish-born sculptor. She moved to Dresden in south-eastern Germany in 1991. Chodakowska and her husband have made their home in the countryside on the edge of Dresden since 1995: she has held German citizenship since 2018. She returns frequently to her "Stammfrauen" sculptures of women, generally naked and carved in wood, and has also produced figures for fountains and competition pieces. A striking if slightly unconventional outdoor exhibition area for many of her pieces is provided by the small vineyard on the edge of Dresden where she lives with her husband.
  Her public profile was raised by her figure of Trauerndes Mädchen am Tränenmeer which commemorates the bombing of the city in February 1945, and which was completed and installed at the city's Heidefriedhof cemetery in 2010.
context_section_description: Małgorzata Chodakowska (born 9 May 1965) is a Polish-born sculptor. She moved to Dresden in south-eastern Germany in 1991.  Chodakowska and her husband have made their home in the countryside on the edge of (de) Dresden since 1995:  she has held German citizenship since 2018. She returns frequently to her "Stammfrauen" (loosely, "archetypal women") sculptures of women, generally naked and carved in wood, and has also produced figures for fountains and competition pieces. A striking if slightly unconventional outdoor exhibition area for many of her pieces is provided by the small vineyard on the edge of Dresden where she lives with her husband, (who in 2019 insisted to a reporter that his sculptor wife "brings more income home" than is delivered by the couple's 11 acre winery).
  Her public profile was raised by her figure of Trauerndes Mädchen am Tränenmeer (Grieving Girl at the Sea of Tears) which commemorates the bombing of the city in February 1945, and which was completed and installed at the city's Heidefriedhof cemetery (de) in 2010.
caption: "Signature"2010
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