Drehteller
turntable (for sculpture); banding wheel
noun DRAY-tel-er Rare
Usage Note
Drehteller is a rotating platform used by sculptors to view their work from all sides, or by ceramicists to shape clay. It allows an artist to inspect vollplastische (three-dimensional) works easily. Masculine noun.
Examples
"Die Bildhauerin drehte die Skulptur auf dem Drehteller, um alle Seiten zu prüfen."
Natural Translation
The sculptor turned the sculpture on the turntable to check all sides.
Literal Translation
The sculptress turned the sculpture on the turntable, to all sides to check.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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