Josef Benedikt Kuriger (1754–1815),[1] also spelled Curiger, was a sculptor and model maker from Einsiedeln, Schwyz, who pioneered embryological modeling.
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Josef Benedikt Kuriger was the son of goldsmith Agustin Mathias Curiger, the brother of sculptor Joseph Anton Curiger, and the father of artist Ildefons Curiger. He was a student of Étienne-Pierre-Adrien Gois.[2]
Kuriger's work at the anatomical theatre in Paris gave him the experience to move from portraits and devotional objects into anatomy and obstetrics.[3] Kuriger created wax models of embryos, based on Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring's Icones embryonum humanorum her.[4]
Quellen
edit- ^ Archives Suisses des Traditions Populaires, Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde., 1987, S.200
- ^ "Josef Benedikt Kuriger (1754-1819)". www.kunstbreite.ch. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
- ^ Nick Hopwood: "Plastic Publishing in Embryology" in: Models. Third Dimension of Science, Stanford University Press, 2004, S.171
- ^ Nick Hopwood: Embryos in wax. Models from the Ziegler Studio, Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 2002, S.11
Literature
edit- Adrian Christoph Suter: Die anatomischen Reliefdarstellungen des Einsiedler Kleinkünstlers J. B. Kuriger, unpublished dissertation at the Medizinhistorisches Institut der Universitat Bern, 1986.