Karl Blossfeldt
“My botanical documents should reawaken a sense of
nature, point to its teeming richness of form, and prompt
Karl Blossfeldt 1865 –1932
His subjects were plants and living things
He is famous for his close up photographs of plants.
Blossfeldt was a German photographer, sculptor, teacher and artist who worked in Berlin, Germany.
He worked as an apprentice in a artistic form of iron casting at the iron foundry in Mägdesprung and studied art at the Institute of Royal Arts and Crafts Museum in Berlin between 1884 and 1890.
In 1890-1896 he participated in a project in Italy, run by Moritz Meurer, collecting plant material for drawing classes. During this period Blossfeldt started systematically documenting plant samples photographically. Some of his photographs appear in Meurer’s publications at the turn of the century.
His first exhibition was held in 1926 in Berlin; and published the book Urformen der Kunst in 1928, which was highly appriciated by both critics and public.
Blossfeldt died in Berlin.
connect to your own work now too Kiloran!! JM
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