MARIE DAUENHEIMER

Marie Dauenheimer MA, CMI, FAMI is a Board Certified Medical Illustrator working in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. She has been interested in the history of anatomical art since college days when she first started researching the topic for a course on the history of science. Marie is a frequent speaker on the history of anatomical art and Renaissance drawings techniques. She has taught such classes at the Morbid Anatomy Library and Museum, New York Academy of Medicine, and the Vrolik Museum in Amsterdam. Having studied medical illustration at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Marie is very knowledgeable about 19th drawing techniques.

In addition to maintaining a successful medical illustration business Marie organizes educational travel opportunities through the Vesalius Trust Foundation. These “Art and Anatomy Tours” to Europe offer the unique opportunity to study the vast history of art and anatomy by visiting dissecting theatres, anatomy museums, anatomical and pathological wax collections, and art collections. Her next tour, being co-organized by Joanna Ebenstein, will be to France and Switzerland in October 2022.

COURSES TAUGHT

The Exquisite Art of Human Anatomy: History and Techniques