The captivating ornaments on a matte green background and the murals by Professor Otto Gussmann can be admired to this day.
The elliptical »Greet Meeting Hall« (»Grosser Sitzungssaal«), with its Monier vault at the northern end of the central building, today still steals the show with its unique design and décor. Małgorzata Chodakowska lives with her husband, famous Saxon organic winegrower Klaus Zimmerling, at the Weingut Zimmerling winery in Pillnitz, where many of her artworks can be admired in the studio and garden. The sculptor has held a number of exhibitions, including in Vienna, Tokyo, Dresden, Berlin, St Petersburg, Graz, Łodz and Veksølund (Denmark). She has received numerous prizes and awards, including first prize and the contract to create the »Trauerndes Mädchen« (»mourning girl«) sculpture in 2010 at Dresden's Heidefriedhof cemetery for the victims of the bombing on February 13th, 1945. She has been living in Dresden as a freelance artist since 1991. In 1991, she was awarded the »Meisterschulpreis« for her dissertation under Prof. She attended the local art college and later studied sculpture at the art academies in Warsaw and Vienna from 1985 onwards. Małgorzata Chodakowska was born in Łodz (Poland) in 1965. In the middle of hectic hustle and bustle, it radiates calmness and contentment - an expression underlined by the closed eyes and slight smile on her gilded lips. The sculpture's muted colour scheme and puristic form means it blends harmoniously into the domed hall of the Saxon State Chancellery. The golden robe in fact underlines the figure's nudity which exudes pure sensuality. The female body is clad in a gossamer, almost fancy dress, though she is not completely veiled. Featuring subtle, pastel glazes, the slender beauty known as »the seeress« appears pure and natural. Delicate female bodies – occasionally also referred to by Małgorzata Chodakowska as »images of Eve« – are the cast-bronze symbols of unadulterated harmony. The Saxony-based sculptor has always focused her work on human figures. The life-size bronze sculpture, ✽ie Seherin« (»the seeress«), crafted by Polish artist Małgorzata Chodakowska, has been an artistic feature in the domed hall of the Saxon State Chancellery since 14 June 2011.
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