Carl Friedrich Gauss

**Draft of the seated figure of the German mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss.** The figure was planted on the Potsdamer Brücke in Berlin. In 1942, the bronze figure was melted down. Part of the sculpture collection at the city museum of Berlin, Germany. The collection consists of 3.000 objects of which a third are portrait busts of famous Berlin artists, scholars, politicians and rulers. Model: The model is based only on 48 photographs taken from one angle in order to test the platform and RealityCapture. This results in some irregularities.. See the object in our database: https://sammlung-online.stadtmuseum.de/Details/Index/342492 More about Helmholtz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss **CC-BY-Attribution: Stadtmuseum Berlin | Oliver Ziebe**