Josef Benedikt Kuriger
Swiss sculptor
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| Intro | Swiss sculptor | |
| Places | Switzerland | |
| was | Artist Sculptor | |
| Work field | Arts | |
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| Birth | 1754 | |
| Death | 1815 (aged 61 years) |
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Josef Benedikt Kuriger (1754–1815) was a Swiss model maker who pioneered embryological modeling. Kuriger's work at the anatomical theatre in Paris gave him the experience to move from portraits and devotional objects into anatomy and obstetrics. Kuriger created wax models of embryos, based on Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring's Icones embryonum humanorum her
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- Adrian Christoph Suter: Die anatomischen Reliefdarstellungen des Einsiedler Kleinkünstlers J. B. Kuriger,unpublished Dissertation at the Medizinhistorisches Institut der Universitat Bern, 1986.