Over 100 handcrafted life’s works
They require a little more care, but are all the more impressive for it: our handcrafted, one-of-a-kind pieces are not made of plastic, but of solid concrete! A quarter of a century ago, artists Thomas Stern and Boris Tverdochlib set themselves a special mission: they wanted to create lifelike, life-size dinosaurs. But how do you recreate something that has been extinct for millions of years? Their solution: with scientific meticulousness. Using sketches and research findings from the Natural History Museum in Berlin, Thomas and Boris began, bone by bone, claw by claw, to make the unimaginable tangible. Inside every dinosaur lies a sturdy steel framework – the supporting skeleton. In a process often lasting months, concrete is applied in layers, shaped and refined. Skin textures, scales, muscles, claws – until raw material is transformed into a deceptively lifelike prehistoric creature. Today, 28 years later, there are now over 100 of these extraordinary dinosaurs at Styrassic Park in Bad Gleichenberg.
