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Karl BlossfeldtPentagon and Star1929
1929
About the Item
11 x 8 1/2 inches
Framed: 20 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches
Not signed, from the book
- Creator:Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932, German)
- Creation Year:1929
- Dimensions:Height: 11 in (27.94 cm)Width: 8.5 in (21.59 cm)
- Medium:
- Period:
- Condition:Very good condition of the photogravure and archivally matted and in a high quality black frame, negligible wear to frame.
- Gallery Location:Greenwich, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU141326617352
Karl Blossfeldt
Karl Blossfeldt was a German photographer, sculptor, teacher and artist who worked in Berlin, Germany. He is best known for his close-up photographs of plants and living things, published in 1929 as Urformen der Kunst. Blossfeldt was inspired, as was his father, by nature and how plants grow. He believed that "the plant must be valued as an artistic and architectural structure." Among his students at the Berlin Arts and Crafts School was Heinz Warneke. From 1924, Blossfeldt was a professor at the Vereinigte Staatsschulen für freie und angewandete Kunst (United States School for Fine and Applied Art) in Berlin, Germany.
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