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Fritz Kolbow

* 1878 , † 1946, Moulangeur

Very little is known about Fritz Kolbow. He was born in 1878 and died in 1946. Kolbow ran a private teaching materials workshop in Berlin, from which he supplied the Pathological Institute under Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), the University Eye Clinic and the Surgical University Clinic in Berlin from 1896. Around 1900, he worked mainly for the Lesser'sche Hautklinik at the Charité. From 1901 to 1905, he produced moulages for Eduard Jacobi (1862-1914), the then director of the Dermatological University Clinic in Freiburg. Kolbow worked in Dresden from 1903. In 1910, he took over the management of the "Pathoplastic Institute" in Dresden, which was privatized in 1913 to enable Fritz Kolbow to supply foreign clients more easily. Between 1910 and 1918, he played a decisive role in the establishment of the National Hygiene Museum in Dresden. After the First World War, he returned to Berlin, where he ran a studio until 1941. Unlike other moulageurs, he trained several students, including Ella Lippmann (1892-1967), who succeeded him as head moulageur at the National Hygiene Museum after his return to Berlin, and Lotte Volger, who founded the Zurich moulage collection. Fritz Kolbow's entire Lesser collection in Berlin, apart from a few moulages, was sold to candle dealers and destroyed in the 1960s. There are two undated moulages by Fritz Kolbow in Kiel. They are marked with his sign: "Fritz Kolbow - Atelier für medizinische Lehrmittel Berlin N. W."

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