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Karl Blossfeldt
Artist's Name: Karl Blossfeldt
Preferred medium: photography
birth year: 1865
Nationality: DE
City: Berlin

Karl Blossfeldt - Profile

He worked as an apprentice in an artistic form of iron casting at the iron foundry in Mägdesprung between 1881 and 1883; and studied art at the Institute of Royal Arts and Museum (later named College of Fine Arts, or Hochschule für Bildende Künste) 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. In 1898 he married Maria Plank. The marriage ended with a divorce in 1910 after 12 years. He later married the opera singer Helene Eminem. He started teaching at the Institute of Royal Arts and Crafts Museum in Berlin in 1898, and continued working there as a professor from 1921 until 1930. His first exhibition was held in 1926 at the Nierendorf Gallery in Berlin; and published the book Urformen der Kunst in 1928, which was highly appreciated by both critics and public. His subjects were plants and living things. He was inspired, as was his father, by nature and the way in which plants grow. (Wikipedia)

important exhibitions from Karl Blossfeldt

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Die neue Wirklichkeit. Pinakothek der Moderne München DE 26.03.2011
Karl Blossfeldt Forum für Fotografie und Kunst, Köln Köln DE 04.01.2003
Die Kunst zu sammeln Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf DE 21.04.2007
LE SILENCE Une fiction Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (NMNM) Monaco MC 02.02.2012
ATLAS. How to Carry the World on One's Back? ZKM - Museum für Neue Kunst Karlsruhe DE 06.05.2011
The Flower as Image Humlebæk DK 10.09.2004
ATLAS - HOW TO CARRY THE WORLD ON ONE'S BACK? Deichtorhallen Hamburg DE 01.10.2011
Living Stones Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen Oberhausen DE 10.02.2007
Close Up Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh GB 11.10.2008
IM GARTEN Nordico - Museum der Stadt Linz Linz AT 20.05.2011

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Galleries representing
Karl Blossfeldt:

COOK FINE ART New York
Kicken Galerie
Michael Hoppen Gallery
Sabine Schmidt Galerie
SAGE Paris
Ubu Gallery

Collections representing
Karl Blossfeldt

BnF Site Richelieu
Center for Creative Photography
Deutsche Bank Collection
Forum für Fotografie und Kunst, Köln
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA
Museum DKM, Duisburg
National Gallery of Canada
Photographische Sammlung Köln SK Stiftung Kultur
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
West Collection