Fine texts about Martin Mayer
Herbert List, 1965:
... These female figures made a great impression on me. The final achievement of the form showed that Martin Mayer had inwardly found an adequate way of expression. ...read more: On Martin Mayer
Franz Roh, 1965:
... His women are vegetative creatures who appear entirely self-contained. ...read more: Martin Mayer
Hans Konrad Roethel, 1972:
... The calling and longing they display through posture and gaze resembles the games of those "enfants terribles" who, innocent and seductive at the same time, confuse the senses. ...read more: Martin Mayer
Margarethe Krieger, 1974:
... Nature is the spiritual origin of Martin Mayer's art [...] the idea immanent in it, recognised by the sculptor and made visible through abstraction. ...read more: Martin Mayer
Hartwig Garnerus, 1981:
... monumentality is one of the defining characteristics of Martin Mayer's nudes, regardless of their size. ...read more: A woman is a woman is a woman?
Werner Haftmann, 1988:
... The woman's body is transformed into an independent pictorial cipher, which contains all aspects of a naturalistic depiction, but gains its expressive power from the arrangement of pure forms. ...read more: The sculptor Martin Mayer
Heinz Spielmann, 2002:
...Martin Mayer always understood sculpture as an art of the human form, he never doubted that this art had its own laws, but he never saw a classical canon as its prerequisite – always life itself. ...read more: The sculptor as a graphic artist
Christa Sigg, 2016:
... If you like, his Francis striding into the world radiates trust in God, the certainty of being safe. There is hardly a better way to express the happiness of people of faith. ...read more: With faith in God and luscious fairies
Dietrich Heyde, 2019:
... I would just like to say once more, and now with the example of his Orpheus, how beautiful, downright powerful and therefore convincing the formal language of Martin Mayer is and how it affects us....read more: Thoughts on Martin Mayer
Thomas Gädeke, 2025:
... This sculptor celebrates the beauty of the female body in a strongly abstracted representation, thereby fulfilling an essential task of modernism: to conquer the forms of nature in an own way. ...read more: "Sports in the sculptural world of Martin Mayer"