Author: BLOSSFELDT, PROFESSOR KARL; NIERENDORF, KARL [INTRO.]
Title: Art Forms in Nature. Second Series. Examples from the Plant World Photographed Direct from Nature
Description: London: A. Zwemmer, 1932. First UK Edition. Green hardback cloth cover with gilt titles and gilt embossed leaf (Nigella Damascena) to front board. 320mm x 260mm (13" x 10"). XIII + 120pp. 120 photogravure plates. Karl Blossfeldt (June 13, 1866 December 9, 1932) 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'. He was inspired, as was his father, by nature and the ways in which plants grow. He believed that "the plant must be valued as a totally artistic and architectural structure.".. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Boards bowed with rubbing and bumping. Foxing to prelims and page edges. Front inner hinge cracked. Bookplate to front paste down .

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