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Botanica: Group Exhibition

Past exhibition
17 May - 5 July 2019
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Karl Blossfeldt, Urformen der Kunst (Art Forms in Nature), 1928-1932

Karl Blossfeldt

Urformen der Kunst (Art Forms in Nature), 1928-1932
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27 x 20.5 cm (image)
36.5 x 19.5 cm (framed)
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Karl Blossfeldt (June 13, 1865 – December 9, 1932) was a teacher at the Royal Arts Museum in Berlin and became a celebrated photographer nearly overnight after the 1928 publication of...
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Karl Blossfeldt (June 13, 1865 – December 9, 1932) was a teacher at the Royal Arts Museum in Berlin and became a celebrated photographer nearly overnight after the 1928 publication of his Urformen der Kunst (Art Forms in Nature), a photo catalogue filled with images of plants. Blossfeldt, who studied sculpture and iron casting but had no formal training in photography, built a camera to magnify his subjects. Arranged with stark, neutral backgrounds, his photographs of plant life reveal the architectural intricacies of tendrils, petals, and root hairs on flower stems. Urformen der Kunst was intended to be a pedagogic tool for German industrial and commercial designers, not a collection of avant-garde, modernist photographs, yet it led designers and artists alike to look at the natural world through a new lens.
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