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Background information
Karl BLOSSFELDT, the great pioneer of plant photography, was neither a professional photographer nor a natural scientist. As a professor at the Kunstgewerbliche Lehranstalt in Berlin, sculptor and amateur photographer, his interest in the world of plants was of an artistic and didactic nature: he was concerned with the structure of plants, their 'highest artistic form' born of expediency, which he wanted to make visible and comparable with the help of photography. At the end of the 1920s, he published the two volumes of photographs 'Urformen der Kunst' and 'Wundergarten der Natur', which had a lasting influence on the art of his time and inspired the Surrealists as much as the leading representatives of the Neue Sachlichkeit. They made Karl BLOSSFELDT famous overnight and went down in the history of photography and art as classics of their genre.
Content
This volume, 'Karl Blossfeldt. Masterpieces' gathers the most beautiful of his strictly factual and at the same time poetic plant portraits.
About the German photographer, Karl BLOSSFELDT (1865-1932)
Photo books by and about the photographic work of Karl BLOSSFELDT
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Alma-Elisa Kittner
- Book design
- Anja LUTZ
- Format
- Gebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 22,5 x 22,5 x 1,5 cm., 96 S., 40 Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY/ ALSO AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH!