Special exhibition

Wood carving art - animal worlds
December 4 2018 - March 17 2018

Elephants and water buffaloes, rhinos and giraffes, small calves and heavy animals alike crowd together to form a large puzzle. Or they nestle individually into the wooden background. Photographer and woodcarver Götz-Peter Reichelt often draws inspiration for his unusual wooden sculptures and reliefs from the Museum of Nature Hamburg - Zoology. A selection of his works will be on display here from December 4, 2018 to March 17, 2019.

Since 1995, the photographer has turned his carving art into a profession. If he traveled for many years through foreign countries with his camera, he now works motifs of exotic, mostly endangered animals into driftwood planks. "In this way, the animal lives a little in its natural environment," says the artist, who lives in Bali. The woods, shaped by nature, form the basis for the backdrop against which Reichelt tells his animal stories. But they are also the material from which he shapes the motifs.

With Noah's Ark, he even made it into the Guinness Book of Records: His ark, carved from one piece with a total of 71 pairs of animals, is considered the world's largest piece of art of its kind.

                                                                                                                                                                UHH/CeNak, Möckel