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First edition of the third and final book in Blossfeldt’s series of nature photographs, with 120 photogravures.
As a professor of art in Berlin during the 1920s, Karl Blossfeldt produced over 6,000 botanical photographs initially intended to inspire the industrial designers and architects among his students. With the publication of his three major works, Urformen der Kunst, in 1928, Wundergarten der Natur in 1932, and the posthumous Wunder in der Natur, Blossfeldt’s “straightforwardly scientific, if greatly magnified, close-ups of plant form as isolated objects of unexpected aesthetic delight” helped generate the artistic movement known as Neue Sachlichkeit (Roth, 48).
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