Jürgen Lingl

As a child Jürgen would paint and draw everything he set eyes on: animals, people, buildings, landscapes. Already at the age of 20 a gallery in Dachau exhibited his work, mainly studies of nudes.

Jürgen enjoyed a wood sculptor apprenticeship with Master Hans-Joachim Seitfudem and thereafter successfully found his own niche, creating sculptures with a chainsaw. The sculptures appear like drawings, drawn with a chainsaw in a three dimensional space, whereby colour adds a poetic touch to it. The combination of the rugged wood and selected use of colour is the powerful component and so typifies Lingl’s personal style. His sculptures of animals are very realistic and mirror their natural characteristics.They often seem majestic but their beauty is also soothing somehow. They shelter love for the human eyes, the passion the artist is able to instill in all of his work. Jürgen Lingl-Rebetez works are found both in private and public collections across Europe, the US and Canada.