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