Josef Benedikt Kuriger



Josef Benedikt Kuriger (1754–1815), also spelled Curiger, was a sculptor and model maker from Einsiedeln, Schwyz, who pioneered embryological modeling.

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.

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.

Literature

 * Adrian Christoph Suter: Die anatomischen Reliefdarstellungen des Einsiedler Kleinkünstlers J. B. Kuriger, unpublished dissertation at the Medizinhistorisches Institut der Universitat Bern, 1986.