More than 100 handcrafted life’s works
A little more work to maintain, but all the more impressive for it: our handcrafted, one-of-a-kind figures are not made of plastic but of solid concrete! A quarter of a century ago, the artists Thomas Stern and Boris Tverdochlib set out on a special mission: they wanted to create true-to-life, life-size dinosaurs. But how do you recreate something that has been extinct for millions of years? Their solution: with scientific precision. Using sketches and research findings from the Natural History Museum in Berlin, Thomas and Boris began, bone by bone and claw by claw, to make the unimaginable tangible. Inside each dinosaur is a sturdy steel frame – the load-bearing skeleton. In a process that often takes months, concrete is applied to it layer by layer, shaped and refined. Skin textures, scales, muscles, claws – until the raw material becomes a deceptively real prehistoric creature. Today, 28 years later, more than 100 of these extraordinary dinosaurs stand in Styrassic Park in Bad Gleichenberg.
