By this menu item I'd like to present you the news concerning my illustration, research and business. Your're welcome to discuss with my - please use the contact form for that! Any products beside commissioned work will be presented here, ready for purchase!
April 19th
the first two weeks of fossil documentation in North America are finished: Sam Noble Museum (Norman, OK) and Carnegie Museum (Pittsburgh, PA) - thanks for all the help to my dear colleagues!
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
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
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, ...
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.
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
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:
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.
Febr 18th
Fabio Manucci made an interview, which he greatly designed
agathaumas.blogspot.com/2012/02/intervista-frederik-spindler.html
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
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
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.
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
Sept 8th 2011
new dinosaur reconstructions: Gastonia & Dysalotosaurus
life through time: paleo-globes, life scenes, and time spiral
I concede the old watermark was annoying. So I created a new one. Thanks for your understanding that I have to protect the work.
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!
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...