Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 3D print model

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as depicted by Doris Stock in her silverpoint drawing from April, 1789. This may be the last portrait of Mozart made from life.

Doris (Dorothea) Stock was a German artist of the 18th and 19th centuries who specialized in portraiture. She was at the center of a highly cultivated household in that Doris' younger sister Minna was engaged to Christian Gottfried Körner. Doris was very close to her younger sister Minna. The Körner household in Dresden ... became a literary and musical salon in which a great number of artists, musicians, and writers were guests and her friends and acquaintances included some of the most eminent figures of her day, including Goethe, Schiller and Mozart. .

At this time, Mozart (he most commonly called himself Wolfgang Amadé or Wolfgang Gottlieb) was passing through town and giving concerts, as part of the Berlin journey he made during Spring 1789. On either 16 or 17 April 1789, Mozart made a social visit to the Körner home in Dresden. Stock took the occasion to sketch a portrait of Mozart in silverpoint on ivory board, shown here.

This drawing is considered authentic and along with Joseph Lange's portrait (Constanze Mozart said that Lange's portrait was by far the best likeness of him.) show many similar facial features.

As portraits done at the time often shows persons from the side and rarely from the front I decided that Doris Stocks portrait offered the best way to model Mozart from the side. The drawing can be seen as the last image. Of course, as no front-facing portrait exists some guessing is in-avoidable.

What is generally said about Mozart:

• Small, 1.5 meter
• Relatively large head and small hands
• Pale complexion
• Large blue eyes, standing out even, often mentioned for their radiance and liveliness. Some even claims that, in reality, Mozart had dark brown eyes in that 18th century artists liked to paint people with blue eyes
• Large nose
• His face was pockmarked (from childhood smallpox)
• A prosaic appearance