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long time no see!
fall 2015
It's been some time since I've made the last update. Well, there was some reason. A dissertation, for instance. And other projects, like merriage. But I couldn't allow this year to pass by without taking a day off to show you what was going on:
publications and link to dissertation thesis
... and of course some images from the time since my last update - which has been in spring 2014, oh dear...
working at the PIN for some days
after-defending - punishment for getting a PhD
and a string of impressions from the sculpturing job - see final results here
my new studio...
April/May 2014
thanks to all the great helpers, I'm ready to work at a new address. All the paintings did well during the transport, one maquette lost its fragile ear, another one a tail. So, no problems at all. And the first items are about to get ready soon...
public business
December 2013
still über-busy, but nice to have some little impact in public perception: visited by Dr. Annette Richter (photographer) from Hannover, to check the results for an order funded by the Klosterkammer Hannover - and Dr. Jan Fischer and me on a list of awarded Freiberg citizens, thankfully noticed
new calendar released!
Sept 2013
under the support of the GEOSKOP Urwelt-Museum (Thallichtenberg, GER), the new calender is ready to be ordered now. Please use the contact form or write directly to mail@frederik-spindler.de
L.A. county museum
Oct 2013
during the SVP annual meeting in Los Angeles...
Tilly Edinger prize for Dr. Jan Fischer - on mesozoic fishes
fall 2013
After years of exact (and well ilustrated ;-) work, our forer Freiberg colleague Dr. Jan Fischer got the well earned Tilly Edinger prize for his research on extinct shark's lifestyle at the 2013 Göttingen meeting - congratulations!
Connected to the latter, some dateon the fish (and insect and vertebrate and shelly's) lagerstätte from Madygen (Triassic of Kyrgyzstan) were presented on the Mesozoic Fish Meeting in Vienna, 2013. 1st poster prize.
busy times
but cannot say I don't love it
before painting...
... there is much work to do! Discussing and sketching with Annette Richter and Jahn Hornung, first steps on some Early Cretaceous Scenes.
dinosaur track sites of Northern Germany
July 22nd 2013
under supervision of the team of Annette Richter (Hannover), we had a wonderful weekend trip to Obernkirchen and Münchehagen, Early Cretaceous dinosaur tracksites
after my great research journey
coming home from a 3-months documentation trip (Aprilo to June 2013), I remember a wonderful time - thanks to all the helpers and friends I met! I spent one week each in Norman/OKL, Pittsburgh, and Cambridge/MA, then 2 weeks in Montreal, and s e v e n with the great team of Robert Reisz in Mississauga/ONT. What a great chance, so I then will work on thankfully!
- Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman/OKL
- Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh/PA; with Ami Henrici and Dave Berman
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge/Ma (Harvard Univ.)
Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal/QC
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto/ONT - with Michael Caldwell, Tiago Simoes, Aaron LeBlanc, me, and Kevin Seymour (courtesy of Jasmine Lin, Taiwan)
Robert Reisz' lab, Department of Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga
what's new?
March 2013
new dinosaurs, a Triceratops baby and an unspectacular T.rex ...
the eryopid Glaukerpeton, revision article Illustration
GREAT BIODIVERSITY CYCLE, with oil-painted life reconstructions of several fossil plants, invertrebrates, and vertebrates
latest cover girls
Dec 22nd 2012
The featured article of SEMANA vol. 27, an exhaustive paper about the Nýřany dissorophoid amphibians (Late Carboniferous, Czech Rep.), presents Nyranerpeton amilneri WERNEBURG 2012 n. gen. et n. sp. - click here for gallery view
- Cover of SEMANA 27 (2012) by Naturhistorisches Museum Schleusingen.
new paleo-art calendar 2013
A compilation of 2011 and 2012's best art work in paleontology reconstruction. The perfect gift for all researchers, collectors and enthusiasts. order calendar via contact form visit the shop
what's new?
Nov 25th
Unfortunately I cannot show you the best scientific documentations I'm drawing these months, for they have to wait for publication. But there's new stuff on life reconstructions and backgrounds. AND DON'T FORGET TO ORDER THE 2013 PALEO-ART CALENDAR !
this time we have to start with the dinosaurs: an oil painting series with several Troodontidae, and a historical series on Iguanodon
among the published stuff you'll find a calamite tree reconstruction and Triassic vertebrate schemes
new sculptures: maquette of Repenomamus and a historical Diplodocus
lectures: images from a new short course on scientific drawing
and as usual: contributions to the sketchbook, with troodontids, early amniotes, cetaceans, ...
Paläontologische Gesellschaft jubilee meeting
The paleontological society was founded in 1912. In Sept 2012 the annual meeting was celebrated in Berlin. Contributions and posters will be listed in the publication list.
- talk on pelycosaurs
- the bone dungeon
- always drawing
what's new?
After a long and busy summer I'm here again with the latest artwork and travel images. See the following new contents:
"from pencil to pickax - summer activities 2012" (just below) shows you some places where I have been, some people I met
a taphonomic cartoon and a dark rock album cover are among the published stuff
Repenomamus, Wealden reptiles, and ice age mammals newly on the "any reconstruction" gallery
some new pelycosaurs at the sketchbook
from pencil to pickax - summer activities 2012
Sept 17th
I've been on several journeys to document fossils bones, meet interesting people, and also to dig for new fossils. Some impressions...
(Photographs by A.Mudroch, Geoskop, J.Radley, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, J.Falconnet)
- with Dr. Ute Richter, NaTourWissen, in front of our institution in Freiberg
- my dear Richard Mally, discussing some whale sketches with me
- Thomas Bach and me, with Cryptovenator, GEOSKOP, Thallichtenberg
- Dr. Jon Radley at Warwickshire museum
- me, at the same place
- Berlin, face to face with Lystrosaurus, and my cellar room for documenting Datheosaurus
- excavation in Oberhof, Thuringia, with many Permian plants, some amphibians, sharks, and invertebrates
- meeting Jocelyn Falconnet in Paris
new paleo-art calendar 2013
Finally it is ready - a compilation of 2011 and 2012's best art work in paleontology reconstruction. The perfect gift for all researchers, collectors and enthusiasts. order calendar via contact form visit the shop
work report
July 4th
As expected, my employment leaves not much time for artwork. Nevertheless, many projects are running, e.g. more Wealden dinosaurs. I had some visitors to my studio. Things are going fine.
Here is what's new on this website:
half-time: the 2012 calendar review
- visitors to my art studio: Valeri Golubev was here in May (together with Zhuo "Jumper" Feng who took the photo; and the NaTourWissen Team visited me in June (Alexander Mudroch and photographer Ute Richter, here in the university collection)
research employment
April 10th
Soon, my DFG-funded employment will start. The next years primitive sphenacodonts are what I dream of...
(large picture: Palaeohatteria by Credner, 1888)
bone histology course, Steinmann Inst., Bonn
March 2012
Lead by Prof. Martin Sander, we had a great time learning about paleo-histology in tetrapods. Photographers: Aaron LeBlanc, Carole Gee.
intervista a Frederik Spindler: imprevedibili mondi pietrificati = "unpredictable petrified worlds"
Febr 18th
Fabio Manucci made an interview, which he greatly designed
agathaumas.blogspot.com/2012/02/intervista-frederik-spindler.html
temnospondyls in oil
Jan 30th 2012
Finally I have finished my latest oil painting this morning. It's on Glaukerpeton, an eryopid, that is about to be revised by Ralf Werneburg and David Berman.
paleo-phytology!
Jan 27th 2012
Together with Ronny Rößler and Robert Noll, we discussed some new calamite tree species from the Permian of Brazil from the original fossils from a petrified forest up to first reconstruction sketches. Natural Science Museum Chemnitz
and further memories ...
Jan 2nd 2012
playing chess last May with my dear Richard Mally, and then drawing: a cynodont (charcoal)
found some old drawings
Jan 2nd 2012
These are some of my first complete drawings dealing with dinosaurs, done between 1998 and 2002.
how to do...
Dec 14th 2011
Some common mistakes...
studio party
Dec 2011
latest artwork and modifications
Nov 24th 2011
get the new PALEO CALENDAR 2012, see below...
a life scene with Permian amphibians
scientific images of Triassic shark fossils
life of the Triassic Madygen lake ecosystem
own research: new publications (conference abstracts); fossil casts; fossil documentation in progress
latest lecture activities
extended link list
I try to write in English now, so please help me if you see mistakes
what's also new? scroll down to see...
how I looked when I was 5 years old
my new art studio
a list of some press communications using my artwork
Calendar "Leben versteinerter Welten" 2012
Finally printed, and already sold for many times. Still available! Order for EUR 15 + portage (don't forget to give me the address!)
my new art studio
Nov 10th 2011
Since two weeks ago my home studio is ready. May the disorder begin!
earliest evidence of dinosaur drawing Freddi
Sept 22nd 2011
This photographs have been taken in march 1989, when I was five years old. Thus you may image me starting at four! Can't believe it.
"... off the beaten path ..." - public relations
Sept 22nd 2011
Years ago I started drawing dinosaurs and soon sold the first pics, when it was nothing but a strange hobby. The last weeks have brought several PR links and press releases for National Geographic, Discovery Channel and others, showing the advance I made - or better: have been given. Thanks to all colleagues and customers! Still hope to walk "off the beaten path", as Stevo Darkly wrote about my work in 2008...
TV interview in our lab in Freiberg and the Kleinwelka dinosaur park
Triassic shark nursery
Triassic freshwater sharks
latest artwork and modifications
Sept 8th 2011
new dinosaur reconstructions: Gastonia & Dysalotosaurus
life through time: paleo-globes, life scenes, and time spiral
new watermark
I concede the old watermark was annoying. So I created a new one. Thanks for your understanding that I have to protect the work.
Finally ... a new calendar: "Life of Petrified Worlds" 2012
After years of waiting, a new calendar is ready for purchase. It is a pilot scheme, filled with the greatest reconstructions produced during the last months. If you like it and want a 2013 calendar with extra painted life scenes, let this project grow and order the 2012 issue - and have a nice prehistoric time!
- I appreciate if you send the poster to your friends and colleagues who love nature or fossils.
"news & infos" going into service ...
July 3rd 2011
Some days ago I got a trade license. Regarding to German law, I'm not just a freelance artist only, but also a self-employed. Looking forward to the calendar sale and new projects. Hope to present new website contents soon...