news & infos

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

Oct 2013

during the SVP annual meeting in Los Angeles...

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.

... there is much work to do! Discussing and sketching with Annette Richter and Jahn Hornung, first steps on some Early Cretaceous Scenes.

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

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!  

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

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

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.

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)

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

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:

new dinosaur reconstruction

fossil sharks and mammals

numerous sketches and ideas

half-time: the 2012 calendar review

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)

March 2012

Lead by Prof. Martin Sander, we had a great time learning about paleo-histology in tetrapods. Photographers: Aaron LeBlanc, Carole Gee.

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.

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

Jan 2nd 2012

playing chess last May with my dear Richard Mally, and then drawing: a cynodont (charcoal)

Jan 2nd 2012

These are some of my first complete drawings dealing with dinosaurs, done between 1998 and 2002.

Dec 14th 2011

Some common mistakes...

Dec 2011

Finally printed, and already sold for many times. Still available! Order for EUR 15 + portage (don't forget to give me the address!)

Nov 10th 2011

Since two weeks ago my home studio is ready. May the disorder begin!

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.

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!