Woodcarving

Our Woodcarving School offers just the right choice if you…

are a novice or advanced carver who would like to learn more.
try new things and techniques or deepen your existing knowledge.
value personal guidance in small course groups, which meets your current skill level.
place value on choosing from 700 models to carve from.
want to be instructed step by step by accomplished course instructors.
like to let yourself be inspired by like-minded students.
are between 6 and 99 years old (100+ upon request ☺).

Our wood-carving course offerings entail the following 4 versions, which we consciously choose to mix with the course formation and groups:

Course Offers

Taster Course Woodcarving

Beginner

Carving is totally new to you? And you now wish to start working in wood with your own hands? Looking for someone who can teach you the basic steps and can show you the joy in working with wood?

Basic Course Woodcarving

Beginner

Have you already gained some craftsmanship experience or made first attempts at woodcarving?

Continuation Course Woodcarving

Intermediate

You already have some skills in carving? Looking for someone who can advance your base level with key steps?

Advanced Course Woodcarving

Advanced and professional

You are versed in crafting skills of carving and enjoy working with wood? You would like more intensive training and are looking for someone who can deliver inspiration and professional tips? Welcome to our highest class level!

Special Courses: Carving

Devil and Krampus Mask Carving

The course "Krampus Mask Carving" provides novice or experienced carvers the needed crafts skills to carve a devils' mask.

Traditional and Mardi Gras Masks

Beginner and Advanced

Our course for beginners and advanced students, members of Mardi Gras clubs or traditional customs groups

SF5

Special Carving Course- local wild animals with live observation

They are not to be missed in the treasure trove of motifs for carving: deer, chamois and ibex are not only the most traditional, but also the most popular animals among woodcarvers.

SF6

Special Course Crib Figures

Motifs, scale and style of figures can be chosen freely. Bring along any models or pictures or figures which can be augmented are helpful.

Crash course Krampus mask

In diesem intensiven 2½-tägigen Kurs fertigen Sie Ihre eigene Krampusmaske anhand eines vorgefrästen Holzrohlings an. Diesen bearbeiten Sie dann nach Ihren persönlichen Vorstellungen. Die Details der Maske werden sorgfältig herausgeschnitzt, anschließend bemalt und mit Hörnern sowie Augen vervollständigt.

SF3

Relief carving

To visualize three-dimensional motifs in the surface: This is the challenge of relief, where you have to consider the rules of perspective.

SF1

Chip carving, ornament carving, and letter carving

for beginners and advanced

There are many possibilities to decorate and shape different items of daily use, like boxes, nameplates, spoons, and much more.

SF2

Carving the human head and faces

for slightly advanced and advanced carvers

Heads and faces are especially challenging whilst carving. Based on our “Step by Step – models” and with the support of our course instructors, we will help you to master the carving of the human head and face.

Free forming of wood

for beginners and advanced

As a beginner, you will benefit from the fact that this class is not about perfect carving technique, but about getting into the material of wood, seeing the grain, noticing sapwood and knots, and incorporating them into the piece.

SF4

Professional cutting

Fast, rational work and more safety when cutting a workpiece from a block are learned and practiced.

Portrait – Relief

Depicting three-dimensional motifs on the surface: This is the challenge of the relief, where you have to take the rules of perspective into account.

Woodcut - Printmaking

Woodblock printing is not only one of the oldest letterpress techniques, but also one of the most diverse. Our experienced guest lecturer Doris Neidl will teach you the graphic possibilities and techniques of woodblock printing.

Interactive Carving Courses-Overview Calendar

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Carving or Sculpting?

In our woodcarving classes we provide the sound skills of wood handicraft in order to be able to reproduce given references and models utilizing the carving chisels. The main focus of our woodsculpting courses is on the development and formulating ones own ideas and drafts, which will then be made into real wooden objects.

Course Offers

Taster Course Woodcarving Basic Course Woodcarving Continuation Course Woodcarving Advanced Course Woodcarving

Special Courses

Devil and Krampus Mask Carving Traditional and Mardi Gras Masks Special Carving Course- local wild animals with live observation Special Course Crib Figures Crash course Krampus mask Relief carving Chip carving, ornament carving, and letter carving Carving the human head and faces Free forming of wood Professional cutting Portrait – Relief Woodcut - Printmaking

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