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Wolfgang Sandt
(* August,12,1960 in Munich) is a German sculptor, author and Argentine Tango teacher.

Education and career
After finishing art school in Munich, Wolfgang Sandt completed an education as stone mason and stone sculptor and graduated with a masters degree in 1995. Since 1985 Sandt had been working together with several other sculptors, mainly doing works in public space and ecclesiastical architecture. From 1987 until 2001 he worked to create a memorial for the outpost Ottobrunn of concentration camp Dachau. Sandt works as free artist. He is member of the artists association "FMDK" (Freie Münchner und deutsche Künstlerschaft) and the art association "Kunstverein Ottobrunn".

Oeuvre
In his art work Sandt is specially interested in themes like evanescence, transitions, 	interspaces, change, and in challenging pretended certainties. To show this Sandt creates extremely fragile sculptures made from stone, specially marble: Stelae with predetermined breaking points, sliver thin sculptures seeming to transform themselves into light. Typical for Sandt are also his house sculptures, small houses made from natural stone, in all kinds instable, precarious situations thus reducing ad absurdum the idea of a house as secure, protected place.

Memorial for the outpost Ottobrunn of concentration camp Dachau
Maybe Sandt´s most important work is the. Sandt started working on the memorial 1987. 2001 it was finally erected in Ottobrunn after years of political dispute.

Sculptures in public space and public commissions
Haar, Munich, "Srebrenica" Ottobrunn, Munich, Townhall sculpture garden, „Fragile Stele IV“

Ottobrunn, Munich, Memorial monument for the concentration camp of Ottobrunn, outpost of Dachau

Ottobrunn, Munich, Townhall sculpture garden, „Fern in mir“

Public commissions Sculpture for the Bavarian State Archives, Munich, Germany

Publications
Wolfgang Sandt wrote the artbook "Giardino delle Poesie - Garden of Poetry", ISBN978-3-00-041464-0. The book was published 2013.

Projects
Creation of a sculpture garden at Castel Rigone, Passignano sul Trasimeno

Argentine Tango
Apart from being a sculptor Wolfgang Sandt is a renowned teacher for Argentine Tango, and writes regularly about Tango on his blog "Tango Lessons".

Links
Wolfgang Sandt, Sculptor, Master Stone Mason