| Rose Koller | |
| Birth Date: | February 10, 1909 |
Rose Koller (February 10, 1909 - September 3, 2008) was an Austrian sculptor.
Koller worked for the Natural History Museum in Vienna starting in 1933. In 1936, the Smithsonian's Anthropological Department commissioned a series of "family portrait-sculptures of ancient Austrians."[1] Koller worked with a sculptor team. They used prehistoric skulls to model scientifically accurate heads for exhibition in an early example of forensic facial reconstruction.[2] [3]
Koller published a paper in 1935, Ein Beitrag zur Schädelkunde der Juden (Skull science of the Jews), which was a craniologic study of the Jewish population of Constantinople.[4] She joined the NSDAP in 1938.
Koller worked for the Natural History Museum where she created a historical bust of St. Leopold which was exhibited at the 500th anniversary of his canonization.[5]