Wood Carving Artists

The Master of Joachim and Anna carves a medieval hug in the wooden sculpture Joachim and Anna. They embrace each other because Anna is finally pregnant, after a visit from an angel. The child will be a girl, who in turn will also become pregnant […]

The Master of Hakendover hid Peter under rocks, which seem about to collapse. All lines in this wooden sculpture focus on the mourning face and folded hands of the apostle, who betrayed Jesus three times. The Master of Hakendover hid Peter under rocks. Peter squeezes

Wild Thing Gauguin, that’s how biographer Sue Prideaux summarizes the famous painter. But she doesn’t forget the wood carver that Gauguin also was. From clog maker to artist who brought back to life the sculptures of the islanders in French Polynesia destroyed by colonizer France.

Paul McCarthy turns Snow White into a porn star, by having her suck off the pointed hat of one of the seven dwarfs. The wooden sculpture is part of his White Snow project, a series of gigantic sculptures carved from black walnut wood. The pointed

Emile van der Kruk turns trees upside down. That way they look like people, he says. “Their roots are our brains.” He incorporated this idea into his most beautiful wooden sculptures. For example, he carved a large human ear from the trunk of a root

The Scream of Mother Earth by Omer Gielliet is no more. Removed and destroyed by the municipality of Amsterdam. The wood of the award-winning wooden sculpture in the town of Weesp ‘was rotten and cracked’. A pity that of this groundbreaking sculpture nothing more than

Donatello depicts an emaciated Mary Magdalene. She is naked, only covered by the hair she did not cut for thirty years. The poplar wood sculpture broke with all traditions and rules of the church. The Renaissance began. The Italian Donatello (Born as: Donato di Niccolò

David Nash has been processing the four elements fire, earth, water and air in wooden sculptures all his life. His work with fresh wood continues to change through drying for a long time. The fact that the fresh oak wood will crack and split is

Auction record Leonora Carrington with the wooden sculpture painted by her ‘La Grande Dame’. Also known as: ‘The Cat Woman’. A buyer paid no less than 11.38 million dollars (!) for it at auction house Sotheby’s. This amount breaks the record of another wooden sculpture:

Man Ray destroyed the eye of Lee Miller, attached to the inverted pendulum of a metronome. His muse and fellow photographer had left him. That is why this surrealist wooden sculpture was accompanied by the instruction: ‘destroy it in one blow’. Man Ray destroyed the