Karl Wenschow
Karl Wenschow (born October 21, 1884 in Benneckenstein , † July 24, 1947 in Munich ) was a German sculptor and cartographer .
The son of a form engraver developed Wenschow 1918 a method for industrial production of precision Relief - Maps . For this purpose, exact plaster reliefs are first created using contour lines and a relief milling machine. The method became known as the Wenschow method (also Wenschow manner) in cartography .
Wenschows relief maps have their plastic representation of terrain surveys worldwide reputation gained. The Wenschow method brings the visual effect of a relief into the map image. The originally drawn reliefs by Karl Wenschow are still used in current maps today.
The Wenschow relief
An official contour map of the part of the earth's surface to be represented served as the working document . This was done with the management style of a pantographic special device. Every movement of the guide pin was translated into a rapidly rotating milling needle, which worked the layers of height out of the material from top to bottom with great precision. The result was a terrain model as a relief.
After a revision, this relief served as a template for the photograph. Using special equipment, the optically three-dimensional image of the Wenschow relief map was then created in several work steps.
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| SURNAME | Wenschow, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and cartographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Benneckenstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1947 |
| Place of death | Munich |