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Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) was a great pioneer of
botanic photography, yet he was neither a professional
photographer nor a botanist. As a professor at the
Kunstgewerbliche Lehranstalt (Academy of Fine Arts)
in Berlin, sculptor, and amateur photographer, his
interest in the plant world was of an artistic and
didactic nature: he concerned himself with the
structure of plants, their "superlative artistic form"
born of "expedience," which he sought to make visible
and comparable with the aid of photography. He published
two seminal works-Art Forms in Nature (1929)
and Art Forms in Nature, Second Series (1932)-that
had a lasting impact on the art of his day and were
enthusiastically received by both the Surrealists and
the New Objectivity movement. The books brought
overnight fame to their author and went on to become
classics in the history of art and photography.
Our volume is a compilation of the best of Blossfeldt's
strikingly sober yet poetic portraits of plants.
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Karl Blossfeldt (Schielo/Harz 1865 - 1932 Berlin)
1884-1889 Studium an der Unterrichtsanstalt des Königlichen Kunstgewerbemuseums, Berlin. 1896-1898 Aufenthalt in Italien als freier Bildhauer. 1898 Beginn seiner Lehrtätigkeit an der Unterrichtsanstalt des Königlichen Kunstgewerbemuseums, Berlin. Systematische photographische Erfassung von Pflanzenformen. 1921 Ernennung zum ordentlichen Professor. 1928 erscheint die erste Auflage von "Urformen der Kunst", 1932 "Wundergarten der Natur". Neue Folge von "Urformen der Kunst"
