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Berlin, Verlag fur Kunstwissenschaft, 1/1/1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Bound in publisher's green cloth. 120 plates. 32 x 25 cm. Moderate shelf wear, see our pictures. Clean, unmarked pages. 101 Books, pp. 48-49; Open Book, pp. 106-7. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Subjects Decoration and ornament -- Plant forms.

Berlin: Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Folio. XIII, [3]pp (text), 120 loose plates, as issued. Original grey cloth portfolio, with red lettering on spine and front cover. "Wundergarten der Natur" is the follow-up volume to "Urformen der Kunst" (1928). Karl Blossfeldt was a university teacher and used his photographs to teach formal art studies at the Royal School of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin. He photographed plants systematically with a 5 x 7" (13x18cm) view camera of his own construction. Immensely popular and profound in their simplicity, Blossfeldt's typology of plant forms drew parallels between nature and art. They were used as inspiration for jewelers, wrought iron workers, designers, craftsman, and artists worldwide. His vision is as fresh and unforgettable today as one could imagine it to be when this book was first published. As Martin Parr and Gerry Badger point out, while Blossfeldt's work was "a key model for the 'typologies' school… Read More