Karl Blossfeldt

Karl Blossfeldt

Art Forms in Nature  Today is the anniversary of the death of the German plant photographer Karl Blossfeldt who died on this day in 1932.  Working in Weimar, Germany as a sculptor and architect, Karl made his cameras himself and designed them to magnify up to thirty times – which allowed him to capture the…

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December 9, 2019 Goodbye Sansevieria, Blue Mold, Substituting Herbs in Cooking, Thoreau, Peter Smithers, Karl Blossfeldt, Ground Rules by Kate Frey, Mushroom Set and Lorraine Collett

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Today we celebrate the botanist who was also a spy during WWII. We’ll learn about the German photographer who saw artistic inspiration in his close-ups of plants. We’ll hear some prose about winter, We Grow That Garden Library with a book that offers us 100 tips for Growing a More Glorious Garden. I’ll talk about…

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