Chainsaw art
Dieter Binder saws creatures out of wood for celebrities
Chainsaw woodcut artist Dieter Binder is working on a sculpture in the shape of an eagle. photo
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From Maulbronn into the world: a woodcut artist has already created 300 to 400 figures with his chainsaws. Singer Andrea Berg is also among his customers.
A wooden peacock for fashion designer Harald Glööckler, an owl and a butterfly for the pop singer Andrea Berg. Sawing wooden sculptures with a chainsaw: This has been Dieter Binder’s hobby since 2005. He is proud of the fact that he has created wooden figures for celebrities such as Berg and Glööckler. “There’s just something about that,” he said in Maulbronn, Baden-Württemberg. Sawing wooden sculptures for them was an experience. “Not everyone has that.” A photo of Binder with Berg and the owl sculpture hangs just on the left side at the entrance to Binder’s Besenwirtschaft. Next to it is a picture of a sawn eagle made of wood and the half-blood Apanatschi by Winnetou, with a dedication of thanks from actress Uschi Glas.
“This creativity and precision is really great,” Berg wrote to the German Press Agency. Binder made the two and a half meter high owl with fine patterns for her as part of a tour in 2019, and then two years ago a huge butterfly with a bench. Both figures can still be seen today in Aspach near Stuttgart.
Binder has now created between 300 and 400 wooden figures and sculptures. “They are from Berlin to Hamburg, Austria, Tyrol, on ski slopes and down to South Tyrol,” says Binder. His works are also on the Brenner Pass; a hand made of wood also made it to the USA.
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