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Karl Blossfeldt

1865 - 1932

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Karl Blossfeldt (13 June 1865 – 9 December 1932) was a German photographer and sculptor. He is best known for his close-up photographs of plants and living things, published in 1929 as Urformen der Kunst. He was inspired, as was his father, by nature and the ways in which plants grow. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Blossfeldt is the 71st most popular photographer (up from 76th in 2019), the 3,594th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,773rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Karl Blossfeldt ranks 71 out of 148. Before him are Herb Ritts, Gertrude Käsebier, Alexander Gardner, Cornell Capa, René Burri, and Imogen Cunningham. After him are Erich Salomon, Karimeh Abbud, Marc Riboud, Werner Bischof, William P. Gottlieb, and Lennart Nilsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1865, Karl Blossfeldt ranks 109. Before him are Eduard Vilde, Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia, Lubor Niederle, Bernard Berenson, Winnaretta Singer, and Edgar Aabye. After him are Cândido Rondon, Mrs Patrick Campbell, Ursula Ledóchowska, Elise Richter, Robert W. Chambers, and Albert Aurier. Among people deceased in 1932, Karl Blossfeldt ranks 81. Before him are Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Peg Entwistle, Begum Rokeya, Paul Gorguloff, Émile Grumiaux, and Edward Marsh. After him are Filippo Turati, Bipin Chandra Pal, Christian von Ehrenfels, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, Mikhail Pokrovsky, and Charles Fort.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Blossfeldt ranks 3,596 out of 7,253. Before him are Bernhard II, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1428), Karl Bartos (1952), Max Noether (1921), Ida Straus (1849), Theodoric of Freiberg (1250), and Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (1905). After him are Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1811), Franz John (1872), Carl Humann (1839), Rudolf Schlechter (1872), Georg Heinrich von Görtz (1668), and Henriette Sontag (1806).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among photographers born in Germany, Karl Blossfeldt ranks 12. Before him are Guillermo Kahlo (1871), Astrid Kirchherr (1938), Andreas Gursky (1955), Gisèle Freund (1908), Grete Stern (1904), and Lothar Wolleh (1930). After him are Erich Salomon (1886), Heinrich Zille (1858), Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897), Ellen von Unwerth (1954), Annemarie Heinrich (1912), and Thomas Struth (1954).

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