Karl was born on June 13,1865 in Schielo a village that is in the Harz district of Germany. He grew up in the mountains of central Germany. He later moved to Berlin. Before he was a photographer, he studied painting and music at the Institute of Royal Arts Museum in Berlin. Once he was done studying he then taught plant drawing and modeling at the same institute for over 30 years.
During his lifetime period he was a sculptor, teacher,and artist but mainly he was known for his photography by doing close ups of living things and plants. He once said that "the plant must be valued as a totally artistic and agriculture structure."
In 1926 the owner of a gallery put his work in an exhibit in Berlin. A few years later he wrote a book containing 120 of his pictures under the title 'Urformen der Kunst' (Art Forms in Nature). Before his work became famous in the world he basically had to train himself. He used a camera that he made himself so he could magnify the plants in his pictures.
He was one of the few photographers in that time to become famous before he died. Later on he died from a tumor when unfortunately the tumor spread to his spine and paralyzed him and then caused his death on December 9,1932 when he was only 67 years old.
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http://www.art-directory.info/photography/karl-blossfeldt-1865/
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/karl-blossfeldt?all/all-years/all/all/0
http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/karl-blossfeldt.html
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