Karl Blossfeldt 1. Who is: Karl Blossfeldt?

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Karl Blossfeldt
same school he studied at, the Institute of
Royal Arts and Museum, located in Berlin.
He remained there until 1930.
was published in 1932.
10. Public Reception
The
uniqueness
of
his
close-up
photography created widespread popularity
of his first book, which, according to several
sources including the Photography Now
website, was well-received by both critics
and art enthusiasts.
8. Photography
Blossfeldt's passion for nature transcended
into his photography, which consists of
flowers, buds, pods, stems, seed capsules
and other plant materials. Blossfeldt never
received formal photography training and
used a homemade camera designed to
significantly magnify his subjects.
11. Artist's View
According to the Encyclopedia of Twentieth
Century Photography, Blossfeldt did not
foresee his artistry as a photographer but
hoped the release of his work would inspire
people to look more closely at art. He was
quoted as saying, "My flower documents
should
contribute
to
restoring
the
relationship to nature. They should
reawaken a sense for nature, point out its
teeming richness of form, and prompt the
9. Publication
Blossfeldt was 63 years old when his first
book of photographic images, "Urformen
der Kunst" was published. The book
contained 120 of his original photographs
and was released following an exhibition of
his work at Berlin's Gallery Nierendorf. His
second book, "Wundergarten der Natur"
Karl Blossfeldt was a Sculptor's apprentice.
And after studying painting and sculpture on
a scholarship at the School of the Royal
Museum of arts and crafts in Berlinfrom
1884 to 1891, he worked in Italy, Greece
and North Africa collecting plant specimens.
2. What did Karl Blossfeldt do when he was
older?
Karl Blossfeldt is a German artist,
recognized mostly for his detailed
photographs of plants. He was one of few
artists able to achieve fame in his lifetime
although the public only discovered his work
a few years before his death. His passion
for nature and devotion to art remained
constant throughout his life.
1. Who is:
Karl Blossfeldt?
From 1898 until 1931, he was a professor in
the sculpture of living plants at the
Kunstgewerbemuseum (college of Arts and
Crafts) in Berlin. In 1899, he began to
photograph plant forms with a home made
camera. Blossfeldt's photographs were
made with a home made camera that could
magnify the subject up to thirty times its
actual size. By doing so he revealed
extraordinary details within the natural
structure of the plants. In the process he
created some of the most innovative
photographic work of his time. The simple
yet expressive forms captured on film
affirmed his bound less ability. Indeed, his
pictures influenced many architects and
artist if his time, who used Blossfeldt's forms
on Scales as small as ornamental ironwork
and as large as the shapes of entire
buildings.
6. Marriage.
5. Student.
4. Love for Nature.
3.Birth.
2.What did Karl Blossfeldt do when he was
older?
12. Gallery of Karl Blossfeldt.
1.Who is: Karl Blossfeldt?
11. Death.
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10. Artist's view.
9. Publication.
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8. Photography.
7. Teaching.
3.Birth
Blossfeldt was born in Germany in 1865. He
spent his childhood in the Harz Mountains
of central Germany.
4. Love for Nature
A lifelong devotion to the study of nature
became the inspiration for Blossfeldt's
artistic endeavors. According to the
Encyclopedia
of
Twentieth-Century
Photography, he was once quoted as
saying, "The plant never lapses into mere
arid functionalism, it fashions and shapes
according to logic and suitability, and with
its primeval force compels everything to
attain the highest artistic form."
viewer to observe for himself the local plant
world."
12. Death
Blossfeldt passed away on December 9,
1932, as a result of a scrotal tumor, which
had already spread to his spine causing
paralysis.
13.Gallery of Karl Blossfeldt:
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5. Student
Blossfeldt originally studied sculpture and
served an apprenticeship in an artistic form
of iron casting at the Art Ironworks and
Foundry in Magdesprung, Germany. He
attended the Institute of Royal Arts Museum
in Berlin on a scholarship, where he began
collecting plant forms as part of a class
project to use as models for a drawing
class. These plant forms would eventually
become subjects for his photography.
6. Marriage
Blossfeldt's first marriage to Maria Plank in
1898 ended in divorce after 12 years. He
eventually married again to opera singer
Helene Eminem in 1912.
7.Teaching
Blossfeldt taught art and sculpture at he