Lotte's Sculptures

Sculptures and fountains enhance the appeal of any home or garden. Original pieces of artwork add that extra personal touch that can make a setting just a little more special. The pieces shown at this site have been appreciated by many just to look at and some have been on display at shows such as the Washington Flower and Garden Show, the Norfolk Flower and Garden Show and The National Arboretum.

The artist, Lotte Dolezalek, has lectured at horticultural conferences and garden symposia, and taught a lecture within the Smithsonian Program "Campus on the Mall" with the title: "The Interplay of Art and Nature in the Water Garden. A comparative analysis of their development in Western civilizations".

Lotte's garden in Virginia has also been featured in one of the "Your Home Series" Time-Life Books "Your Home - Outdoors" about gardening and building ponds (ISBN 0-8094-5520-X).

Dolezalek does predominantly commissioned work. This allows her to develop her sculptures in close relationship to their specific environment in the framework of a sculptures in close relationship to their specific environment in the framework of a fountain or in garden settings. Her masks can be mounted on stone or wood.

Her professional career includes working as head librarian of the Municipal Library of Metz and setting up a research library for the Institute of International Pedagogical Research in Frankfurt. As an educational consultant she has translated and edited reports of international conferences. Together with her husband, Hans Dolezalek, she published in 1993 a four-volume report on "The East-German Research Landscape in Transition".

Take a stroll through a sampling of Lotte's work.