Lifecasting

As Körperabformung or Lebendabformung refers to the shape of acceptance of a living person or of its parts. The death mask, however, represents a separate area

Körperabformungen are assigned on the basis of artifacts from antiquity. In modern times, since the Renaissance won the impressions of people living in plaster increasingly important as models for castings (for example in bronze using the lost wax ) and for study purposes. Since the 19th century, the technique was also used for the production of mannequins.

In the 20th century the Körperabformung was, especially in the 1960s, used as part of the Pop Art of sculptors for installations. The works range from pure impression to processed from the acquired forms of sculptures and statues, as she designs made, for example by artists from the United States as Edward Kienholz and Duane Hanson or by the German artist Harry Kramer in the 1970s under the title Panopticon were. The materials of the figurative representations that emerged after Körperabformungen in plaster, were clay, plaster and paper, but also metals, plastic laminates and silicone.