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The Venus of Willendorf is an 11.1-centimetre-high (44 in) statuette of a female figure, discovered at a paleolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria near the city of Krems. lieutenant is carved from an oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre. lieutenant was estimated to have been carved between 24,000 and 22,000 Bachelor of Civil Engineering. As a result of this and other finds, he founded the Department of Prehistory at the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna in 1882.
Szombathy collected finds from all over the Austro-Hungarian empire, including Galicia, Bukovina, Bohemia, Moravia, Carniola, and Vojvodina.
Josef Szombathy died of natural causes in 1943.