Karl Blossfeldt

Karl Blossfeldt 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.

13 June 1865

Born on the same birth date (13 June 1865): W. B. Yeats

Born on the same birth day (13 June): Denise Pearson • Jacques Rougeau • Mary Whitehouse • Nila Håkedal • William Sealy Gosset

Born in the same month (June 1865): Adelaide Casely-Hayford • Albéric Magnard • Bernard Berenson • Carl Nielsen • Frederick Cook • George Lohmann • George Redmayne Murray • George V • John Monash • May Whitty • Robert Henri • Susan La Flesche Picotte • W. B. Yeats