Career
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 Archives Suisses des Traditions Populaires, Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde., 1987, South.200 Nick Hopwood: "Plastic Publishing in Embryology" in: Models. Third Dimension of Science, Stanford University Press, 2004, South.171 Nick Hopwood: Embryos in wax.
Models from the Ziegler Studio, Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 2002, South.11 B.