Kite Art ... in the sky created by George Peters, Pierre Fabre , Steve Brockett and so on........

... and on the ground??

by Wilfreid Eckholt

I asked myself, is there kite art on the ground? I thought of the beautiful Japanese and Chinese spinners and winders for single-liners, which I had seen at several kitefestivals.

I decided to talk to my good friend and artist, Stade-Schuldt, who lives nearby. His medium is wood, and from it he creates beautiful and imaginative original works.

A brief profile:

Born in Rostock in 1955, Self-made man Has worked as an artist since 1993 14 exhibitions in Germany, to date His pieces sell for $4,000 to $50,000 US

A small collection of his work:

I asked him if he could create for me a winder for a single-liner and a dual-liner, as well as a spinner for a fighter. After a long discussion and some bottles of wine he agreed. Bearing in mind the functional aspects, and drawing from his own imagination, he created the desired pieces.

The spinners and winders were made from fine woods, but mindful of ongoing ecological destruction, he formed them from recycled wooden artifacts.

The single-line winder is made of Buche and Wenge. Wenge is a very old kind of wood that looks like Ebenholz (ebony) and comes from Africa.

It is eye-catching and greatly admired by all who have seen it.

The daul line winder is very effective; two turns of the line and 40 cm are wound onto it.

Akazie and Buche are the types of wood used to form the fighter kite spinner. As you can see, he created it with much inspiration and originality.

Stade-Schuldt loved his compositions so much that he was reluctant to part with them! He would like to show these winders at an exhibition.... I will lend them to him ;-)

But now there is another problem: when flying kites I am afraid to avert my eyes from these jewels.

You cannot deny: There is kite art not only in the sky...