During my traineeship as a restorer at the LVR Landesmuseum in Bonn (then still the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, in short: “RLMB”) I received the unusual order to make a mold of a Roman Bacchus- to make a figure.
The copy obtained in this way should then be used to produce replicas of the Bacchus figure, which can be marketed in the RLMB museum shop.
I first made a silicone mold from the original and then based on that template made a resin copy of the small Roman statuette. This synthetic resin mold then served as a template for the reproductions.
While the new Bacchus replicas are still on sale in the RLMB museum shop today, a replica (picture above right) was made a souvenir to my studio and good old Bacchus (picture above left) back to his Roman friends in the display case of the Bonn Museum's permanent exhibition. 😉
