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Form follows flower : Moritz Meurer, Karl Blossfeldt & co.

Title
Form follows flower : Moritz Meurer, Karl Blossfeldt & co. / für das Kunstgewerbemuseum - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin herausgegeben von Angela Nikolai und Sabine Thümmler.
Publication
Berlin : Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin : Deutscher Kunstverlag, [2017]

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Additional Authors
  • Nikolai, Angela, 1985-
  • Thümmler, Sabine
  • Kunstgewerbemuseum (Berlin, Germany), host institution.
Description
151 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm
Summary
The plant photographs of Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) are now world famous. Unknown, on the other hand, is that their creation forms part of the history of the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts: Blossfeldt did not produce his photographs as free art photographs, but as elements of a collection of textbooks. In the 1890s, the teacher Moritz Meurer (1839-1916) focused on the study of plants at the Kunstgewerbemuseum. Using models, herbariums, educational charts and photographs, the laws of natural shape formation should be permeated and the design theory renewed. The catalog and exhibition bring together the teaching aids as an ensemble for the first time and illustrate their impressive formal aesthetic and media diversity. They are shown in the context of magnificent works of ornamental and master graphics, objects of Art Nouveau and pictorial worlds of contemporary botany. The question of dealing with nature in design theory and design is still relevant. With works by students of the UdK Berlin, successor of the former educational establishment, the tradition of student exhibitions in the Kunstgewerbemuseum will be revived on its 150th anniversary. 00Exhibition: Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, Germany (19.10.2017-14.01.2018).
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, Germany, Octobober 19, 2017 - January 14, 2018.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-148).
Contents
Vorwort -- Ein ganz und gar neues Museum : die frühen Jahre des Berliner Kunstgewerbemuseums mit Lehranstalt / Sabine Thümmler -- Historisch oder natürlich? Vorlagenwerke für einen neuen Stil / Sabine Thümmler -- Natur bildet : Moritz Meurers angewandtes Pflanzenstudium und seine Lehrsammlung / Angela Nikolai -- Die Galvanoplastiken Hermann Trautmanns in Meurers Lehrmittelsammlung / Maria Kuzminskaia & Jörg Freitag -- "Die lebende Pflanze [...] ist das beste Anschauungsmittel" zur Didaktik der Botanik um 1900 / Michael Markert -- Pflanzenverbreitung : zu Rezeption und Umsetzung von Meurers Lehrkonzept / Angela Nikolai -- Pflanzen in Bewegung : ein Bericht aus der lehrpraxis / Anna Anders -- Zeittafel -- Katalog -- Ausgewählte literatur -- Verzeichnis der Autor*innen -- Dank -- Bildnachweis -- Impressum.
Call Number
ReCAP 19-20916
ISBN
  • 9783422074453
  • 3422074457
LCCN
9783422074453
OCLC
1015966558
Title
Form follows flower : Moritz Meurer, Karl Blossfeldt & co. / für das Kunstgewerbemuseum - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin herausgegeben von Angela Nikolai und Sabine Thümmler.
Publisher
Berlin : Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin : Deutscher Kunstverlag, [2017]
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-148).
Chronological Term
1800-1899
Added Author
Nikolai, Angela, 1985- author.
Thümmler, Sabine, author.
Kunstgewerbemuseum (Berlin, Germany), host institution.
Other Standard Identifier
9783422074453
Research Call Number
ReCAP 19-20916
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