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Moulage collection, since 1899

Non-public collection of approx. 850 lifelike wax representations of special skin diseases for teaching purposes; started in 1899 by Prof. Eduard Jacobi, then head and professor of the Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases at the University Hospital of Freiburg.
In addition to Prof. Jacobi, Prof. G. Rost, Prof. A. Stühmer and today Dr. Martin Faber also supported the collection.

Famous moulageurs in Freiburg:

• Alfons Kröner, Breslau (worked under Ernst Jacobi, 38 examples in Freiburg) (-1937)
• Theodor Johnson, Freiburg (worked under Ernst Jacobi)
• Fritz Kolbow, Berlin (1878-1946) (21 copies in Freiburg)
• Sergej P. Fiwejskj, Moscow (1856-1934)
• Otto Vogelbacher, Freiburg (1869-1943)
• Theodor Niehues, Münster? (1896-1981)

Promoter of the art of moulage:

• Professor Prof. Ernst Jacobi (1862-1915)
• Professor Georg Alexander Rost (1889-1976)
• Professor Prof. Alfred Stühmer (1885-1957)

The last Freiburg moulages are dated 1957

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