Barack Obama's July 2008 speech here, which was enthusiastically received by thousands of cheering admirers in Tiergarten park, has been memorialized in a German artist’s wood carving. Juergen Christ, 65, spent 400 hours carving in a panel of wood the event in precise detail, including facial expressions, American flags waving, and spectators holding digital cameras. He worked from a picture taken by an Associated Press photographer and, beginning early this year, carved every day through June. Now that the carving has been unveiled at the artist's studio in Cologne, subsequent lithographs, which Christ is limiting to 50, will be available for purchase shortly. Christ says he was inspired by the then presidential candidate's charisma as well as his binational, biracial family background.

Read more at the New York Times and see more Obama art at the Art of Obama.