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VERY SCARCE, TRUE FIRST PRINTING from 1928 (!) of this photobook classic -
by Professor Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932).
There was also a second printing one year later and many more printings much later.

First and most important book by the German photographer and sculptor who is best known for his stark close-up photographs of plants, twigs, seeds, leaves, and other flora. Karl Blossfeldt was inspired, as was his father, by nature and the ways in which plants grow.

"Urformen der Kunst" is Karl Blossfeldt's first book and one of the most influential photographic books ever:
- Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books, page 48
- Martin Parr, The Photobook, vol 1, page 96
- The Open Book, Hasselblad Center, page 66/67
- 802 photo books of the M.+M. Auer collection, page 133

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Verlag Ernst Wasmuth A.G., Berlin. 1928. First edition, first printing

Hardback with full green cloth. 250 x 320 mm. 260 pages (20 pages with text, 240 pages with 120 black and white photographs). Photos: Professor Karl Blossfeldt. Introduction by Karl Nierendorf. Text in German.

Condition: 
Inside all text and all photo pages clean with no marks and with no foxing; only the first two and the last two pages foxed (what is often the case), beautiful old ex-libris fixed at the top left corner of the rear side of the front cover. Outside quiet fresh with only light trace of use and much better than usual; corners not bumped (like often) and not rubbed (like often), golden letters on the front in great shape, at the spine a bit rubbed. No jacket. Overall fine condition. 

A CLASSIC, A MILESTONE in the history of photobooks - in the VERY SCARCE, TRUE FIRST PRINTING. 

In 1881 Blossfeldt began his studies as an apprentice at the Art Ironworks and Foundry in Mägdesprung, Germany, where he studied sculpture and iron casting. He then moved to Berlin to study at the School of the Museum of Decorative Arts (Kunstgewerbemuseum). In 1890 Blossfeldt received a scholarship to study in Rome under Moritz Meurer, a decorative artist and professor of ornament and design. Along with several other assistants, Blossfeldt created and photographed casts of botanical specimens in and around Rome. He continued to work with Meurer through 1896 and traveled beyond Italy to North Africa and Greece to collect specimens. Beginning in 1898 Blossfeldt taught design at the School of the Museum of Decorative Arts (Kunstgewerbeschule), and in 1930 he became professor emeritus. There he established a plant photography archive that he used to teach his students about design and patterns found in nature.
Blossfeldt had no formal training as a photographer and used homemade cameras that he outfitted with lenses capable of magnifying his subjects up to 30 times their natural size. The use of magnification resulted in images of extreme detail and clarity. With the precision of a botanist, Blossfeldt photographed the natural world for scientific and pedagogical purposes and inadvertently became a modern artist. His work was considered the forerunner to Neue Sachlichkeit photography, which favoured sharply focused documentarian images. In 1926, when Blossfeldt was already in his 60s, his work was exhibited to the public for the first time at Berlin’s avant-garde Galerie Nierendorf. The works exhibited there were published in the book "Urformen der Kunst" (1928). The first of his three photo books (the other two were "Wundergarten der Natur", 1932 and "Wunder in der Natur", 1942, the last published posthumously). It was enormously successful and remains one of the most-significant photo books of the 20th century.

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