Homemade winter fairy tales - snow art from all over the world

This year we were not very well blessed with snow, and that the snow in the necessary quantities for the purposes described equally is still unlikely.

Actually a shame, at least for the suggestions that this article gives, but you can make a note for next year so that you have a really good idea in the middle of the fight against an annoying snow chaos on your doorstep for an artistic use of the snow masses.

What is there about heaven's will? of snow festivals from the last winter of the appetite stimulation of the appetite of snow from snow.

In the Swiss community of Grindelwald in the Bernese Oberland, snow was tied and condensed, sanded and carved from January 21 to 26, 2013. In 1983 the “World Snow Festival” launched with a rather huge Heidi figure, which was (of course) made by Japanese snow artists.

Participation is internationally this year: 10 teams from 10 countries made their striking snow sculptures . A Heidi was spared the spectators this year, in general the figurative representation seems to be less and less in demand in the snow , in any case, abstractly geometric works at the festival dominated this year.

The Swiss team of artists made the first place first, and before the exhibition of this snow art, the people were sure to be one of the few who knew what a coil was: a snow ride with runners, usually made of wood that has only been built in Grindelwald for 100 years.

True to the topic “125 years of winter sports in the glacier village”, the German team also designed: The capital letters “CXXV”, Latin 125, were able to win second. It is then worth mentioning the mapping of a happy young woman with snowboard in her arms (South Korea, 1st place from the audience) and a large holy cheese snowball of the artists from Slovenia, who took 3rd place from the audience.

The Swiss Jungfrauzeitung gives us pictures of the snow sculptures at www.jungfrauzeitung.ch/artikel/122956 .

Many other snow festivals are not limited by a topic, and the most interesting and craziest works of art are created here:

So there is now pop star Psy, who has become famous by the “Gangnam Style” , as a very large snow art work, which he looks really like.

The Psy-Schneemann was created on the Taebaeksan Snow Festival in South Korea, which attracts many snow artists every year at the end of January to early February. If you want to be there next year: Info at https://discoveringkorea.com/090203/taebaeksan-snow-festival-korea .

Until March 1, 2013, the sensational snow art can be visited in the Swiss winter sports paradise of Pontresina, the motto of the “International Competition for Snow Encunst” was “Transitional Beauties” this year.

At the open-air exhibition “Art Paths/Via's d'Art”, really impressive, exceeding, as well as literally “temporary”, abstract snow objects were created, which are effectively illuminated in the evening. Information and pictures: www.kunstwege-pontresina.ch .

snow sculptures this year and the snow simply does not fall with us, you could still travel to the Sapporo Snow Festival to Japan, perhaps the snow festival with the most diverse snow works of snow that are wonderfully illuminated.

The Sapporo Snow Festival will take place this year for the 64th time, from February 5 to March 11, 2013. You can get all information about this on the website www.snowfes.com (non-Japanese click on the only thing you can read on the page, namely the “English” button).

You can't just travel to Japan? Too bad, then you feel like most of us, and you only have to look at the works of art on the websites listed and the planning for the next year.

Who, by the way, not only has to limit itself to the tour: Why don't you plan for your street, school, village community or similar your own snow festival?