Sculpting Sound, Form, and Flight
Maine artist Andreas von Huene breathes vitality into stone and wood, animating his sculptures with imagination and precision.
Andreas von Huene’s sculptures are never still. Whether towering in granite or unfolding in wood, each piece hums with motion, curiosity, and layered intention. His artistic journey—rooted in music, engineering, and heritage—has been one of joyful experimentation, earnest collaboration, and reverent craftsmanship.
A Childhood in Art and Sound
Born in Bath, Maine, and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, Andreas grew up in a world where artistry was the norm. His mother played an array of instruments with nimble fluency; his father, Friedrich von Huene, was a pioneering maker of Renaissance and Baroque flutes and recorders. At home, music was more than entertainment—it was language, lineage, and expression.
“My mother could just jump in and play a Bach prelude at tempo,” Andreas recalls. “She had the fast nerves to do that sort of thing.”
As a child, he found early kinship with visual art while tagging along to concerts and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. There, docents took him under their wing during long musical evenings. “You get a sense of not intimidation, but perhaps ownership,” he says.
From the incised surface of an ancient chamois in the Egyptian wing to the exaggerated vermilion border of a yellow jasper queen’s face, Andreas was captivated by the resonance of craft across centuries.
The Return to Making
Though trained as an engineer—first at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, then Stanford University—Andreas returned to Maine to build a life around making. His sculptures, often carved from stone or wood and sometimes standing nine feet tall, emerge from a confluence of technical prowess and artistic intuition. Whether working in granite, bronze, or repurposed wood, Andreas views each medium as an opportunity for dialogue.
“People say I’m doing figurative work. But when I’m making it, it feels abstract.”
A Culture of Collaboration
For Andreas, making art is rarely a solitary endeavor. He delights in the cross-pollination of ideas with fellow sculptors, machinists, and toolmakers. Collaboration is as integral to his practice as raw material. He credits his father’s inventive spirit and the wide-ranging conversations with friends and peers for helping him push the boundaries of form, scale, and structure.
“The more risk and spontaneity in my process, the more growth the experience produces.”
The workshop is a playground of possibility. Andreas builds his own tools, repurposes machine parts, and invents fixtures as needed. “Once you learn how to make your own tools, that’s another whole world,” he explains.
Discovery Through Form
Ideas, too, arrive in unexpected shapes: the curve of a garden hose, the tension of a stone’s color against steel, the geometry of a bird’s beak. Each observation becomes a seed for invention. Sometimes, a sculpture is born from play, from the joy of simply asking: what if?
The result is a body of work that spans abstraction and figuration, whimsy and solemnity, weight and levity. Some of Andreas’s pieces rock gently when nudged; others tower in stillness but seem poised to step forward.
“Each one is joy. We’re so fortunate to have access to it all.”
No matter the material or scale, Andreas’s sculptures ask us to consider movement and structure not as opposites but as complements. They invite us to slow down, to marvel, and to share in the quiet delight of discovery.
Explore More
Discover Andreas von Huene, a Maine-based sculptor blending engineering and artistry to create dynamic works in multiple mediums, including granite, wood, stone, and bronze.
See his work at the Portland Art Gallery in Portland’s historic Old Port or explore his collection online.
Watch the Interview
To hear Andreas reflect on his musical roots, creative collaborations, and the sculptural dance between material and motion, catch his full conversation with Dr. Lisa Belisle on Radio Maine.
Watch the full conversation on Radio Maine with Dr. Lisa Belisle.
Andreas is a fine sculptor whose works are also in Centre St Fine Arts Gallery in Bath Me. This is a cooperative gallery that is pleased to show his work along with 21 other Maine artists. Come to view the variety of works we have to show!! Address 11 Centre St Bath.