Bibliography

Rajka Knipper and Tanja Löhr-Michels

Monographs and Solo Exhibition Catalogues | Articles and illustrations within newspapers, magazines and anthologies | Books with illustrations of works or mention of Karl Blossfeldt and catalogues of group exhibitions | Advertisements of publishers

The bibliography is divided into four sections and arranged in chronological order within each one. The abbreviated title above each publication is used in the inventory to indicate where, if anywhere, the image in question has been published. To facilitate the identification of periodicals in particular, an effort has been made to show titles complete with all subtitles. Dates or pages identified by context research but not indicated in the publication itself are shown in square brackets. So are any series titles or unchanged re-editions.

The exhibition catalogues listed are a selection of publications relating to exhibitions that featured original prints or a large number of photographs by Karl Blossfeldt. A detailed list of exhibitions in which Blossfeldt's work has been presented is found in the exhibition chronology, where notes are also found on whether an exhibition catalogue was published. The bibliography also includes portfolio editions with new prints or reproductions of Karl Blossfeldt's work. Publications from around 1930 referred to in the secondary literature, containing nude drawings by Karl Blossfeldt, are publications by a namesake living in Leipzig.

With few exceptions, all the publications listed in this bibliography were inspected as originals or copies. A number of articles that could not be found in the secondary literature because of inadequate or incorrect references have not been included. Individual articles available through interlending only as copies were frequently received without page numbers. Where the page number was known or could be ascertained, however, it is indicated. Abbreviations of authors' names could not always be deciphered.

The bibliographic information remains in the original language or in German (Hrsg. = edited, Jg. or Bd. = volume, Nr. = no., H. = issue, Beilage = supplement, Titel = cover, S. = page). Brief comments describe the publications in general terms and indicate the number of Karl Blossfeldt works featured as illustrations.

Advertisements of publishers

Berlin 1926
Otto Dix. Katalog der Gesamtausstellung 1926, Ausstellungskatalog Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf, Berlin: Das Kunstarchiv Verlag GmbH, o. S. [Veröffentlichungen des Kunstarchivs Nr. 2/3, 1926, Hrsg. Gustav Eugen Diehl]
Picture and text advertisements by the publisher Karl Nierendorf on the otherwise unknown publication “Großaufnahmen von Blumen. Bd 1. Architektonische Naturformen, Bd. 2 Kunstformen der Natur”, with 1 photograph by Karl Blossfeldt


Ernst Wasmuth [1928]
Urformen der Kunst. Naturaufnahmen aus dem Pflanzenreich von Professor Karl Blossfeldt. Mit einer Einleitung von Karl Nierendorf, Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, [1928]
Insert on “Urformen der Kunst”, published by Laufer


Literarische Welt 1928
Die literarische Welt. unabhängiges Organ für das deutsche Schrifttum, 4. Jg., Nr. 44, Berlin: Literarische Welt Verlags-Gesellschaft, 2.11.1928, S. 9
Picture advertisement by the publisher Ernst Wasmuth A. G., Berlin, for “Urformen der Kunst” with 1 photograph by Karl Blossfeldt


Querschnitt 1928
Der Querschnitt, Hrsg. Galerie Flechtheim, 8. Jg., H. 10, Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1928, S. 733
Text advertisement by the publisher Ernst Wasmuth A. G., Berlin, for “Urformen der Kunst”


Verlag fĂĽr Kunstwissenschaft [1932]
Wundergarten der Natur. Neue Bilddokumente schöner Pflanzenformen von Karl Blossfeldt, Berlin: Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, [1932]
Insert on “Wundergarten der Natur”, published by Laufer


Werk 1932
Das Werk. Schweizer Monatsschrift fĂĽr Architektur, Kunst und kĂĽnstlerisches Gewerbe, offizielles Organ des Bundes Schweizer Architekten, BSA, des Schweizerischen Werkbundes, SWB, und des Schweizerischen Kunstvereins, SKV, 19. Jg., Nr. 8, ZĂĽrich: Fretz/Winterthur: Fabag, 1932, v. S. 129
Text advertisement for “Wundergarten der Natur”


Kunstforum 1976
Kunstforum International. Die aktuelle Zeitschrift fĂĽr alle Bereiche der bildenden Kunst, Bd. 16, Ruppichteroth: Kunstforum, 2/1976, S. 13
Picture advertisement for “Blossfeldt 1975”