Magnussa Phoenix 
Scientific/Medical Illustration
 Elisabeth Frauendorfer, PhD


Scientific illustrator for medicine and all sciences,
programmer, scientific editor (English, German).
Magnussa Phoenix Frauendorfer

     May I introduce myself?      Samples of my medical illustrations. 
   Some of the books that I illustrated.     

May I introduce myself?  

My name is Elisabeth Frauendorfer, I hold a research PhD and studied medicine, biology and other sciences most of my life at the university level while working.   I am from Vienna / Austria and follow the tradition of the old Masters of Medical/Anatomical/Scientific Illustration at the University of Vienna Medical School, like Mr. Lepier, Prof. Gerhard Spitzer, and others.  

Before emigrating to the USA, I was the only employed Scientific Illustrator at the University of Vienna Medical School where I had my atelier in the Institute of Anatomy.  My immediate supervisors have been Prof. Alfred Gisel and after his retirement, Prof. Gruber.  I also freelanced for scientists and medical publishers from all over Austria and Germany.

.In the USA, I worked for the military (VAMC system, medical/biochemical research) and freelanced for several universities, clinics and private researchers in California (forensic cases, surgery, organ transplantations, creation of medical databases, etc), Alaska (Seward Sealife Center), and New York (forensic medicine).  

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I am no more available for medical illustration and scientific work as I have retired to private life in 2005.

Now I would like to show you some samples of my illustration work.  For most pieces, I did the dissection of the body parts myself, before doing the graphic work that also involved designing the graphics under pedagogic considerations for the individual usage/need.  All the shown artwork has been done by hand with the help of watercolour, pencil, colour pencil and ink, and after finishing the original illustrations they were scanned by me.  

The illustrations shown on this page are miniatures.  If you click on a "thumbnail" then an enlargement will be shown in a new window. 
 Magnussa

teartract
 colour pencil, pencil and ink
16 x 18 cm

 cowscele.jpg (91917 Byte) skeleton of a cow 
 ink
12 x 22 cm
chimpans.jpg (218968 Byte) cranium of a chimpanzee without calvaria
pencil and ink
13 x 13 cm		 brain.jpg (159937 Byte)

human brain and surrounding structures - transversal cut at the level of the chiasma opticum  
 watercolours, ink and pencil
16 x 20.5 cm
palpebra.jpg (87885 Byte)

palpebra 
watercolour, ink, pencil
11 x 15 cm

 tibiafib.gif (145138 Byte)

compartments of the lower leg 
 pencil and ink
14 x 20 cm
veinscul.jpg (58664 Byte)

vein system of the head 
colour pencil, pencil and ink
11 x 14 cm

 sacrum.jpg (70792 Byte)

sacrum and lumbar vertebras 
 ink
11 x 22 cm

 
cranbase.jpg (65551 Byte) base of cranium, interior view
functional and anatomical view 
colour pencil, pencil and ink
10 x 13 cm		 footsole.jpg (59114 Byte) foot sole and muscles 
 pencil and colour pencil
10 x 22 cm
sinuses1.jpg (111908 Byte) nasal sinuses - functional and anatomical view
colour pencil, pencil and ink
17 x 15 cm		 Heart.jpg (86844 Byte) blood flow through the heart
ink
15 x 20 cm
eyenerve.jpg (42162 Byte)

eye muscles and eye nerves 
colour pencil, pencil and ink
9 x 10 cm

 Scullfro.jpg (42097 Byte)

human skull, facies anterior
ink
5 x 7 cm
eyemuscl.jpg (97645 Byte) eye muscles
colour pencil, pencil and ink
18 x 13 cm		 Skullsid.jpg (63405 Byte)

human skull, facies temporalis
ink
7 x 7.5 cm
upperleg.jpg (129928 Byte) muscles, veins and compartments of the upper leg down to the patella.
watercolour, ink, pencil
37 x 12 cm,  41 x 13 cm image sizes		 lunglive.jpg (44134 Byte) liver and lung, seen from the side 
 ink
8 x 21 cm
LEG2.JPG (130189 Byte) TIEFLEG1.JPG (121933 Byte)  TIEFLEG2.JPG (135529 Byte) liver and lung, seen from the front
ink
13 x 14 cm
lumbar vertebras
ink
10 x 9 cm

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Some of the many medical books that I illustrated:

Projektionssymptome
 Univ.Doz. Dr. Otto Bergsmann 
 Facultas Verlag/Wien, ISBN 3-85076-434-6
Abbildungen Nr. 2, 3, 27, 32, 37-59, 65-78

Funktionelle Pathologie und Klinik der Wirbelsäule:  
Band 4: Funktionelle Anatomie und Röntgen-Anatomie der Wirbelsäule 
Univ.Prof. Dr. Alfred Gisel, Univ.Doz. Dr. Lothar Wicke, Dr. Roland Schmiedl
Gustav Fischer Verlag Stuttgart/New York, ISBN 3-437-10910-3
Abbildungen Nr. 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 21, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 37, 38, 43, 44, 51, 53, 54, 63, 
Tafel Nr. 2 oben, 11, 23 unten 

Heiserkeit und Stimmschwäche
Univ.Prof. Dr. H. Gundermann (Heidelberg)
Gustav Fischer Verlag Stuttgart/New York

Transsexualismus
Univ. Prof. Dr. Eicher (Heidelberg)
Gustav Fischer Verlag Stuttgart/New York

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Elisabeth Frauendorfer
 Magnussa Phoenix Scientific / Medical Illustration

E-Mail: magnussa@magnussa.com

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The copyright of all the displayed artwork is with the artist (Elisabeth Frauendorfer, alias Magnussa).          

Elisabeth Frauendorfer's Magnussa Phoenix Atelier and Art Gallery - comprising artwork of her own Magnussa style, in natural style, and also something very special for you:  Medical Artwork.

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