Wolfgang Schenk Taxidermy
Taxidermy Studio
Our studio
Als ich, Erik Schenk, 15 Jahre alt war, machte ich meine erste Ganzkörperpräparation, die Form modellieren und abgießen bis zur endgültigen Montage. Es war ein Rehkitz – nicht spektakulär – aber für mich war es das schönste Tier der Welt! Seitdem hat mich die Faszination der Präparation nicht mehr losgelassen. Nachdem ich Bildhauerei in Südafrika studiert hatte, übernahm ich im Jahre 2000 das Atelier meines Vaters Wolfgang Schenk.
Begonnen hat die Geschichte des Ateliers viel früher. Mein Vater war dreizehn Jahre in Afrika, davon 11 Jahre als Chefpräparator der weltbekannten Firma Zimmermann in Nairobi, Kenia, als er im Jahre 1977 beschloss, seine eigene Firma zu gründen. So landete die Familie Schenk im Westerwald. Am Anfang bestand die Firma nur aus meinem Vater und meiner Mutter, Camilla Schenk.
Seitdem ist unser Team auf 7 Personen und unsere Erfahrung durch persönliche Jagd in aller Welt, durch Aufträge für Museen und internationale Ausstellungen, und natürlich durch Präparationsarbeiten für Jäger aus allen Kontinenten, weiter gewachsen.
Nutzen Sie die Erfahrung, das Talent und die Perfektion unseres Ateliers zu Ihrem Vorteil. Wir sind die Experten für Großwildpräparation aus aller Welt!
Care of the trophies in the field
Your mounted trophies are a lasting memory of your hunt. To obtain good mounts the skins and skulls have to be treated properly in the field.
Lips, eyelids and nose cartilage should be split so that Lips, eyelids and nose cartilage should be split so that the salt can penetrate. The ears should be skinned so that the inside is turned outside, like taking off a sock. After skinning, the skins should be salted and dried in the shade. For detailed skinning instructions please contact us. It is very important that you take an interest in how your skins are treated in the field.
If dipping solutions are used to disinfect the epidermis, the actual dipping should be quick. Under no circumstances should skins be allowed to lie in a brine or dipping solution over-night.
Skins should never be allowed to lie in the sun or be dried at a fire. It is very important to tag your trophies personally, we will supply you with personal tags made for you on request. Please contact us.
Veterinary regulations for the E.U
To import trophies into the E.U. all skulls have to be free of tissue, boiled, disinfected with Hydrogen Peroxide, dried and each skull packed separately in transparent plastic.
Skins have to be salted and dried in the shade, folded when almost dry with the hair side inwards and when thoroughly dry packed in transparent plastic. All trophies have to be accompanied by a veterinary certificate.
If you have any problems please contact us.
Shipping and import
We work together with several shipping agents. We can give you advice on how to import animals that fall under the CITIES regulations.
Please contact us for further details.
Our taxidermy work
In our studio we work according to the most advanced techniques in the art of Taxidermy. All our skins are tanned in a first class tannery and moth-proofed with Eulan. We are one of the few companies in Europe working almost entirely with our own self-sculptured forms. This is the reason why our work is unique. In spite of using our forms again and again and even occasionally buying a first class form, we adjust each form to your individual skin, making the forms bigger or smaller and changing the form to suit your wishes. This is the reason that every mount is a unique piece of art.
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