Portarits
UNIVERSAL
"My Universal Figures embrace images of artists and thinkers I admire. They also include universal qualities, the mother's attachment to her child, the femine, an old philosopher king and people of leisure and at work. In each I look to express what motivates them to be what they are." F.M.
Animals
"We inhabit the world with the animal kingdom. Ferocious, pathetic, playful and pretentious, we also share their characteristics. These qualities communicated through their fur, their wrinkled skin, flaps, beaks, and the forbidding horns of our fellow creatures. In my animals sculptures I seek to capture this common ground." F.M.
Corporate Gifts
"When I am asked to produce corporate gifts for large institutions, I see it as a great challenge to create a unique and relevant work, avoiding the usual clichés associated with this category of sculpture. Examples include: awards for the Israel Aircraft Industry, presentation sculptures for an organization based in New York, a football trophy for a TV network, an Oscar for the music industry. The best affirmation is when the recipients of one of these trophies, gifts, or awards, telephone me...
CUSTOM SCULPTURES
"Creating 'Judaica' is a very special pleasure for me. They are objects used in Jewish religious practice in home and synagogue, designed for rituals which evolved over thousands of years. In recent centuries, especially in Europe, where Judaism was a persecuted 'rival' of Christianity and Jews were debarred from the craft guilds, Judaica was often of low quality, 'poor men's art' made with little love or understanding of their purpose by alien hands. Yet, even there, one senses the urge for...
Jerusalem
"It is impossible to be indifferent to Jerusalem: it inspires, it infuriates, and as the 137th psalm warns, one forgets it at one’s own peril. The diverse buildings of the city have a powerful unity imposed by the stones from which they are constructed; Jerusalem stone quarried from the surrounding hills since biblical times. The dust from the quarries and walls settle on the trees, so that they also blend into this city of universal stone. The walls, towers, gates, and holy sites erected by...
Jerusalim
"It is impossible to be indifferent to Jerusalem: it inspires, it infuriates, and as the 137th psalm warns, one forgets it at one’s own peril. The diverse buildings of the city have a powerful unity imposed by the stones from which they are constructed; Jerusalem stone quarried from the surrounding hills since biblical times. The dust from the quarries and walls settle on the trees, so that they also blend into this city of universal stone. The walls, towers, gates, and holy sites erected by...
Jewelry
"If I had another lifetime I might spend it in making jewelry. Large sculptures keep me busy and allow little time for making beauty in miniature - objects of art to wear. My other works, such as public sculptures, are situated in different parts of the world. Others are 'hidden' in private homes or galleries and after completion I seldom encounter them. But when in a street or restaurant, somewhere in the world, I see my jewelry displayed on the body of its owner as a statement of their...
Jewish Artifacts
"Jewish Figures are the archetypes of our personal legends. They were the characters in the stories we heard as children; the figures that never left us but grew into the secret voices that advise us and ultimately become our judges." F.M.
Jewish Figures
"Jewish Figures are the archetypes of our personal legends. They were the characters in the stories we heard as children; the figures that never left us but grew into the secret voices that advise us and ultimately become our judges." F.M.
Judaica
"Creating 'Judaica' is a very special pleasure for me. They are objects used in Jewish religious practice in home and synagogue, designed for rituals which evolved over thousands of years. In recent centuries, especially in Europe, where Judaism was a persecuted 'rival' of Christianity and Jews were debarred from the craft guilds, Judaica was often of low quality, 'poor men's art' made with little love or understanding of their purpose by alien hands. Yet, even there, one senses the urge for...
Kinger Transport
"When I am asked to produce corporate gifts for large institutions, I see it as a great challenge to create a unique and relevant work, avoiding the usual clichés associated with this category of sculpture. Examples include: awards for the Israel Aircraft Industry, presentation sculptures for an organization based in New York, a football trophy for a TV network, an Oscar for the music industry. The best affirmation is when the recipients of one of these trophies, gifts, or awards, telephone me...
Mezuzahz
"A Mezuzah is the small but potent expression of Jewish identity and faith. In the old quarters of Spanish cities I have seen the empty crevices in the doorposts that centuries ago served as mezuzot and now remain mute witnesses of great tragedies. To make a mezuzah is to become part of an unbroken chain of identity that draws strength from the past and gives meaning to the future." F.M.
Portarits
Portrait sculptures created by Frank Meisler of actual people, depicting not only their likeness but their work activities, hobbies, general interests and essence – all with a degree of humor. The size of the sculpture portraits range from smaller works app. 30 cm high (12 inches) to larger works app. 3 meters high (10 ft). The artist has also executed portrait sculptures of life size Family Groups. Meisler creates these sculptures using an extensive range of photographs of the person he...
Professions
"The professions and hobbies we practice shape our lives and alter us. This is emphasized in my group of figures who pose, perspire, lecture us, swing bats and golf clubs. Ultimately they try to create order out of chaos and seem to draw us into their activities." F.M.
Special Sculptures
"Special sculptures are commissions from governments, corporations, or private collectors. They range from religious works in synagogues or churches, public sculptures, including fountains, statues of heads of state and other renowned figures. Every commission rewards me by revealing a little world, which I enter. Models are presented, agreed upon, completion dates and terms discussed. I always try to meet my clients on site, so that I can become familiar with their needs, location and the...
UNIVERSAL
"My Universal Figures embrace images of artists and thinkers I admire. They also include universal qualities, the mother's attachment to her child, the femine, an old philosopher king and people of leisure and at work. In each I look to express what motivates them to be what they are." F.M.
Animals
"We inhabit the world with the animal kingdom. Ferocious, pathetic, playful and pretentious, we also share their characteristics. These qualities communicated through their fur, their wrinkled skin, flaps, beaks, and the forbidding horns of our fellow creatures. In my animals sculptures I seek to capture this common ground." F.M.
Corporate Gifts
"When I am asked to produce corporate gifts for large institutions, I see it as a great challenge to create a unique and relevant work, avoiding the usual clichés associated with this category of sculpture. Examples include: awards for the Israel Aircraft Industry, presentation sculptures for an organization based in New York, a football trophy for a TV network, an Oscar for the music industry. The best affirmation is when the recipients of one of these trophies, gifts, or awards, telephone me...
CUSTOM SCULPTURES
"Creating 'Judaica' is a very special pleasure for me. They are objects used in Jewish religious practice in home and synagogue, designed for rituals which evolved over thousands of years. In recent centuries, especially in Europe, where Judaism was a persecuted 'rival' of Christianity and Jews were debarred from the craft guilds, Judaica was often of low quality, 'poor men's art' made with little love or understanding of their purpose by alien hands. Yet, even there, one senses the urge for...
Jerusalem
"It is impossible to be indifferent to Jerusalem: it inspires, it infuriates, and as the 137th psalm warns, one forgets it at one’s own peril. The diverse buildings of the city have a powerful unity imposed by the stones from which they are constructed; Jerusalem stone quarried from the surrounding hills since biblical times. The dust from the quarries and walls settle on the trees, so that they also blend into this city of universal stone. The walls, towers, gates, and holy sites erected by...
Jerusalim
"It is impossible to be indifferent to Jerusalem: it inspires, it infuriates, and as the 137th psalm warns, one forgets it at one’s own peril. The diverse buildings of the city have a powerful unity imposed by the stones from which they are constructed; Jerusalem stone quarried from the surrounding hills since biblical times. The dust from the quarries and walls settle on the trees, so that they also blend into this city of universal stone. The walls, towers, gates, and holy sites erected by...
Jewelry
"If I had another lifetime I might spend it in making jewelry. Large sculptures keep me busy and allow little time for making beauty in miniature - objects of art to wear. My other works, such as public sculptures, are situated in different parts of the world. Others are 'hidden' in private homes or galleries and after completion I seldom encounter them. But when in a street or restaurant, somewhere in the world, I see my jewelry displayed on the body of its owner as a statement of their...
Jewish Artifacts
"Jewish Figures are the archetypes of our personal legends. They were the characters in the stories we heard as children; the figures that never left us but grew into the secret voices that advise us and ultimately become our judges." F.M.
Jewish Figures
"Jewish Figures are the archetypes of our personal legends. They were the characters in the stories we heard as children; the figures that never left us but grew into the secret voices that advise us and ultimately become our judges." F.M.
Judaica
"Creating 'Judaica' is a very special pleasure for me. They are objects used in Jewish religious practice in home and synagogue, designed for rituals which evolved over thousands of years. In recent centuries, especially in Europe, where Judaism was a persecuted 'rival' of Christianity and Jews were debarred from the craft guilds, Judaica was often of low quality, 'poor men's art' made with little love or understanding of their purpose by alien hands. Yet, even there, one senses the urge for...
Kinger Transport
"When I am asked to produce corporate gifts for large institutions, I see it as a great challenge to create a unique and relevant work, avoiding the usual clichés associated with this category of sculpture. Examples include: awards for the Israel Aircraft Industry, presentation sculptures for an organization based in New York, a football trophy for a TV network, an Oscar for the music industry. The best affirmation is when the recipients of one of these trophies, gifts, or awards, telephone me...
Mezuzahz
"A Mezuzah is the small but potent expression of Jewish identity and faith. In the old quarters of Spanish cities I have seen the empty crevices in the doorposts that centuries ago served as mezuzot and now remain mute witnesses of great tragedies. To make a mezuzah is to become part of an unbroken chain of identity that draws strength from the past and gives meaning to the future." F.M.
Portarits
Portrait sculptures created by Frank Meisler of actual people, depicting not only their likeness but their work activities, hobbies, general interests and essence – all with a degree of humor. The size of the sculpture portraits range from smaller works app. 30 cm high (12 inches) to larger works app. 3 meters high (10 ft). The artist has also executed portrait sculptures of life size Family Groups. Meisler creates these sculptures using an extensive range of photographs of the person he...
Professions
"The professions and hobbies we practice shape our lives and alter us. This is emphasized in my group of figures who pose, perspire, lecture us, swing bats and golf clubs. Ultimately they try to create order out of chaos and seem to draw us into their activities." F.M.
Special Sculptures
"Special sculptures are commissions from governments, corporations, or private collectors. They range from religious works in synagogues or churches, public sculptures, including fountains, statues of heads of state and other renowned figures. Every commission rewards me by revealing a little world, which I enter. Models are presented, agreed upon, completion dates and terms discussed. I always try to meet my clients on site, so that I can become familiar with their needs, location and the...
UNIVERSAL
"My Universal Figures embrace images of artists and thinkers I admire. They also include universal qualities, the mother's attachment to her child, the femine, an old philosopher king and people of leisure and at work. In each I look to express what motivates them to be what they are." F.M.