Chemist, Industrialist. Co-founder of the German chemical company AGFA. The second son of composer Felix Mendelssohn, he was born in Leipzig, Germany. After his father's death in 1847 he was raised in Berlin by an uncle, the banker Paul Mendelssohn. He earned a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Heidelberg...

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Felix Mendelssohn, German composer, pianist, music conductor, and teacher, one of the most-celebrated figures of the early Romantic period.

Sculpted in ZBrush, the color texture was painted in Substance Painter, rendered in Maya with Arnold, used Xgen core for the hair. This was one of the more puzzling facial reconstruction I’ve worked on so far; comparing the death mask, life mask and the paintings, it’s kinda hard to connect them to one person.

Learn all about the history of ties & neckwear starting with the scarf in ancient China & Rome, the stock, the cravat, bow tie and tie as we know it today

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She dreamt up a set of piano variations in E-flat while asleep: Alma Deutscher is not your average 10-year-old. Clemency Burton-Hill meets the child prodigy.