Karl Blossfeldt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karl Blossfeldt

German photographer, sculptor and teacher

Date of Birth: 13-Jun-1865

Place of Birth: Schielo, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Date of Death: 09-Dec-1932

Profession: photographer, professor, sculptor, botanical illustrator

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Karl Blossfeldt (June 13, 1865 – 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." Among his students at the Berlin Arts and Crafts School was Heinz Warneke.
From 1923, he was professor at the Vereinigte Staatsschulen für freie und angewandete Kunst (United State's Schools for Fine and Applied Art) in Berlin, Germany.
He died aged 67.