Albrecht Dürer has long inspired us with his excellent paintings in his extremely good quality with regard to the execution of our paintings. His statement: 

“Then the art is truly in nature. Who can tear it out has it " 

corresponds exactly to our credo of creating art work of the highest precision and liveliness.

At the beginning of 2020 we considered creating a “ Dürer Rhinocerus ” as a homage to Albrecht Dürer according to the aspects just mentioned, as the culmination of our artistic activity and also with regard to our “old” home Franconia. For the first time, we designed this bronze work of art with a completely new and unprecedented level of precision after printing for the famous woodcut from 1515. The design of the model alone took 460 hours. For example, the number of spines on the back of our bronze exactly matches the number of spines visible on the graphic - and not only this! 

In this context, there are also some elementary designs new to our sculpture, which in earlier versions (e. g. Rhinoceros sculptures by Salvadore Dali) were anatomically incorrect or not shown at all. In addition, some of Dali's rhinocerus sculptures are also insufficiently executed in terms of the casting technique. 

Individual elements that can be clearly seen after the art print / woodcut are reproduced in our work faithfully and in detail. We have interpreted some of the structures that cannot be seen well or not at all according to our anatomical experience, also with regard to the Indian rhinos alive today, in such a way that they contribute to a good, comprehensible and artistic overall picture.

Harbour Seals in Tönning? - up close???!

Yes, they really exist and can now also be touched! Since Saturday June 11, 2016, a family of harbour seals has been in Tönning in the area of the historic port as a life-size group of sculptures in bronze. This work of art, worked out down to the finest details, is a gift from the association “Der Runde Tisch Tönning e. V.” to the city of Tönning to mark its 60-year existence. 

After the ceremonial unveiling and handover of the sculptures to the mayor of Tönning, Mrs. Dorothe Klömmer by “Round Table Tönning e. V.” director, Mr. Rolf Jungclaus the work of art was found impressive by all visitors. Also, children now can be able to experience these “harbour seals” up close at once. 

With subsequent studies on live animals together with research in the literature on size and habitus of seals we have created small plasticine clay models of a male, a female and a howler (21 cm, 20 cm and 12 cm). These models were used as templates for the designing the life-size models, 160 cm for the male, 150 cm for the female and 90 cm for the howler. These now large models formed the template for the raw bronze casts, which are made using the lost wax process. Furthermore, the raw bronzes see a dark marbled patina and black “eyes” for their “life-like” appearance. Many visitors have already experienced an exciting souvenir photo session. 

A report is in Newspaper:

http://www.shz.de/lokales/husumer-nachrichten/eine-seehundfamilie-zum-geburtstag-id13962822.html