- Madame Tussauds Berlin, Remarkable Women
Meet the woman with whom it all began...
She is the woman who started it all: Marie Tussauds.
In the beginning, she was just the daughter of a housekeeper, but now, after more than 200 years, she stands as a wax figure in her own specially founded attraction. Find out about the life of the former Marie Grosholtz and learn more about the history of the attraction.
How is a wax figure created? The 5 most important steps of a wax figure creation are:
Sitting of the celebrity
Modelling of clay body and head
Making a mould
Making the face and head
Styling of the finished wax figure
...now 250 years later she herself stands as a wax figure at Madame Tussauds Berlin.
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Marie Tussauds (born Marie Grosholtz, 1761) was a French wax sculptor and founded the museum “Madame Tussauds” in London.
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King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were the first wax figures crafted by Marie Grosholtz after the French Revolution.
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Marie learnt the craft of sculpturing with wax from the physician Dr. Philippe Curtius. He crafted wax-replications of human body parts to visualize human anatomy.
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Marie Tussauds holds Benjamin Franklin’s clay head in her hand. The second figure she ever made herself.
