Styrian Summer Art: Beework - Beeswax reliefs with Reinhold Aschbacher
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Workshop Description:
In the 3-day workshop "Bee Wax Reliefs," we create vibrant, geometric patterns from real beeswax. This results in flat compositions that resemble mosaics, tiles, or textile designs, playing with repetitions, rhythms, and variations.
The natural material beeswax is very pleasant to work with and well-tolerated as a fragrant raw material. With simple, unprocessed mineral pigments, the color tone of the wax can be varied, creating exciting contrasts and soft transitions within the warm base color.
Starting points are simple geometric basic shapes such as circles, triangles, squares, and lines. From these, we develop diverse patterns that can be clearly structured, calm, or even dynamic and playful—depending on personal ideas and willingness to experiment.
In the workshop, you will learn:
how to safely melt beeswax and color it with pigments
how to cast simple shapes and plates from wax
how to connect these shapes into a relief with simple tools
how to apply the finished wax relief onto a color-coordinated background
For motif design, you can improvise directly on the relief or develop your patterns in advance on the computer or in a sketch. This allows for targeted planning of repetitions, grids, reflections, and color transitions to quickly achieve exciting, individual results. In the end, you will take one or more finished beeswax reliefs home—unique, vibrant wall objects that bring a special atmosphere to the room through their warm surface, geometric patterns, and natural beeswax scent.
Please bring:
Work clothing and work gloves
if available: hot air gun, soldering iron, spatula, or modeling tools (otherwise, the artist provides all necessary tools and materials)
Material Contribution:
Costs for beeswax from the instructor's beekeeping per kg: 25 euros.
The Artist:
Reinhold Aschbacher
Master sculptor Reinhold Aschbacher (1981) works with different materials, techniques, and media. Central to his artistic work is the connection of a craft-based execution with an artistic and philosophical background drawn from historically significant paradoxes, experimental combinations of meaning, and functional processes. In his projects, he combines traditional craft techniques of sculpture—in wood, stone, metal, and ceramics—with the use of digital tools for 3D modeling, object and spatial design, and visualization. Working with ice and light, creating audiovisual installations, and using nature-related materials are also central aspects of his work.
Since 2012, Reinhold Aschbacher has been running the workshop for experimental craftsmanship in Goldegg in Pongau. He has studied philosophy, sound design, and sculpture in Vienna, Graz, Paris, and Barcelona, and in 2025 passed the master sculptor exam according to Austrian crafts tradition and is a beekeeper.
About the offer
Meeting point
Nature Park Pöllauer Tal
Meeting point 09:00 AM in front of the Pöllau Tourist Information Office
Price information
380,- EUR
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Styrian Summer Art: Beework - Beeswax reliefs with Reinhold Aschbacher
office@styriansummerart.at Website +43 664 54 04 289Operator
Styrian Summer ArtVerein Styrian Summer Art
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8225 Pöllau bei Hartberg AT Plan route
