Wood Carving Artists

Zadkine carved 131 sculptures in wood, including a gilded and majestic deer: ‘Le Cerf’. Not everyone knows that for sure. Say Zadkine and most people think of the war monument ‘The Destroyed City’ in Rotterdam. Ossip Zadkine (1888-1967) assembled Le Cerf in 1923 from different […]

When Karel Appel was still making wooden sculptures, like this ‘Windmill’, nobody would give a cent for the work of the young artist. It was shortly after World War II. Karel Appel (1921-2006) had completed his education at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam under the German

After first being banished to the waste container, wood is completely back in interior design. This is noticed by artist Christine Langerhorst (1937), who already ran galleries with wooden art objects in Utrecht in the 1960s. Langerhorst makes magnificent books of wood. She was born

A man sits on the stump of a tree trunk and plays a singing saw. As if mourning the sawn-down forest. The small painting is a typical Teun Hocks (1947 – 2022). On almost all his works he has depicted himself, as a man lost

The artist Femmy Otten (1981) succeeds in conquering the museum with her wood-carved artworks. With her impressive solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, she lifts wood sculpting out of the realm of craftsmanship by exploring major themes such as sexuality, womanhood, motherhood and vulnerability.

Her wooden rug invites jokes. Like: ‘This carpet no longer needs to be beaten’. In the art world, however, the work of Selva Aparicio is taken very seriously. This rug carved out of an oak floor, for example, is about ‘memories from my childhood’. Selva

The first monk in the world had woodworm problems. What to do? A reflection on this masterpiece by German sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider. The faces of wooden sculptures from the 15th and 16th centuries look very dated today. Those high shaved foreheads of the women. All

The miniatures carved from wood by Adam Dircksz date from the 16th century and are so small that you need a magnifying glass to study them properly. About 135 to 150 of these carved miniatures of boxwood have been preserved. They are owned by various

Janson’s Art Bible Ignores Wooden Sculptures. The authoritative Janson’s piles one error upon another blunder when it comes to artworks made of wood. There are plenty of such sculptures. The P+ Special ‘A Correction to Art History’ (2022) showed in 20 pages concealed wooden works

Wood is popular in sustainable circles. As CO2 storage in housing construction. As CO2 capture in the form of climate forests. And as cooling trees in overheated cities. Throughout the centuries, artists have also made the most beautiful sculptures from wood, reflecting the thinking of