Wood Carving Artists

Auguste Forestier was as a psychiatric patient the most important inspiration for Art Brut. His wooden sculptures of generals, human-animals, ships and houses are now in museums and still travel the world. Thus Forestier’s dream of making distant journeys finally became reality. Auguste Forestier, inspiration […]

Ron van der Ende is an illusionist in salvaged wood. The artist transforms panels of only a few centimeters thick into images with an unprecedented spatial depth. It is as if his cars are driving towards you. Boats, houses and landscapes, they seem to protrude

The wooden idols from the Bible are nowhere near as well known as The Golden Calf. Yet in the Book of Jeremiah they once again aroused the wrath of God. So it stands in the book of Jeremiah, which is much more recent than Exodus.

Tapio Wirkkala (1915 – 1985) discovered the rhythm of hollowed-out plywood. The Finnish artist made a 9-meter wall from it, the ‘Ultima Thule’. But he also gave the impetus for what became world-famous Finnish design with commercial utility objects like wooden bowls and dishes for

Carl Andre (1935 – 2024) became a master minimalist by stacking unworked wooden beams on top of each other. Or arranging beams like a landscape on the floor. Andre thus created a radically new way of looking at sculptural art. He became one of the

The Italian sculptor Giacomo Manzù made more than 50 cardinals in his lifetime, almost all cast in bronze. But one special version he carved in wood, in 1945. Our writer-sculptor Jan Wolkers received lessons from Manzù. And made love in the cinema with his later

A good likeness portrait, carved in wood. That is what German wood artist Karen Löwenstrom (1978) has specialized in. It is a special genre that Löwenstrom practices: the (group) portrait in wood. On commission. Her sculptures are figures of about 25 centimeters high, carved in

Fresh and therefore still wet wood forced Henry Moore (1898 – 1986), the most famous British sculptor of the last century, into a new abstract visual language. To ensure that the wood would dry evenly and without cracks, Moore made sure that his very first

Georg Baselitz no longer causes a scandal. Not even with a gigantic wooden sculpture of his little sister and her friends who were in the Hitler Youth. Arm in arm they are depicted, in their ‘BDM-Gruppe’. Raw and gigantic. The saw cuts of the chainsaw