Rose Koller, sculptor and head of restoration department, Vienna Museum of Natural History, ca. mid-1930s. In 1936, the museumÅ’s Anthropological Department commissioned a series of "family portrait-sculptures of ancient Austrians" and Koller headed a team of sculptors who used prehistoric skulls to model scientifically accurate heads for exhibition.
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