#Leopold & Rudolf Blaschka

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Jellyfish

glass sculptures by Leopold (1822-1895) and Rudolf Blaschka (1857-1939), a father and son team of Czech glass artists.

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Glass Flowers by father-son duo Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka.

The two artisans made 4,300 glass models of nearly 800 plant species between 1886 through 1936. They were originally created as teaching tools for botanists.

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Glass Flowers: The Ware Collection of Blaschka

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Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka

Father and Son Glassmakers   https://huh.harvard.edu/glass-flowers https://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/blaschka/today                                        

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This is made of glass

Blaschka Glass Models of Plants exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

From top to bottom, left to right:

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A photo of a large pitcher plant sculpture sitting in a case of glass and dark wood on a white background in a museum exhibit. The plant is photographed from below, so the plant's roots and bottom of the purple and yellow pitchers are in the foreground. The stems, leaves, and flowers are seen from below.

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A close-up photo of the leaves and pitchers, taken from above the pitchers.

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There are two signs to the left of the sculpture of the pitcher plant. The first and larger sign reads:

From the Hands of the Makers Over the course of fifty years, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, father and son, continually experimented with materials and methods that pushed the boundaries of glassworking. After his father's death in 1895, Rudolf continued to refine glass formulations, experiment with pigments and varnishes, and create his own palette of colored glass enamels. He produced this Great Pitcher Plant, Nepenthes maxima (right), the largest and most complicated model in the collection, using many of his innovative techniques.

The smaller plaque identifies the artwork and reads:

Nepenthes maxima (Great Pitcher Plant) Indonesia, New Guinea & Philippines by Rudolf Blauschka, 1906

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Random PNGs, part 151.

(1. "Por amor al arte" by Eric Wert, 2. Sweet potato with sprouts, 3. Victorian paper scrap, 4. Antique infant Mary wax statue, 5. Victorian paper scrap, 6. Glass model by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, 7. Victorian paper scrap, 8. Ginseng root, 9. Apple)

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Soooo... get this: the squids you're looking at right now ARE MADE OF GLASS! They were created by the renowned 19th-century glass artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka (father and son!), and you can find 251 images of these incredible pieces on the Cornell Collection of Blaschka Invertebrate Models on JSTOR, open and free to everyone.

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The father-and-son glass artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka sold their handblown marine invertebrate models to universities and museums before the invention of underwater photography. Clockwise from top left, their glass Glaucus atlanticus (the blue sea dragon); Octopus salutii (spider octopus); Stiliger ornatus (sea slug); and the sea anemone Phyllactis praetexta.Credit…President and Fellows of Harvard College; Photos by Joe Michael

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reproduções em vidro da fauna marinha de leopold blaschka (1822-1895) e seu filho rudolf blaschka (1857-1939)

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LEOPOLD & RUDOLF BLASCHKA

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The glass flowers and sea creatures created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka have a lifelike realism.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons.

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These were in a book I’m reading for my book group - aren’t they so beautiful! I want to see them!

So beautiful and amazing!

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Sunday Evening Art Gallery --  Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka

The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants was made for  the the Botanical Museum of Harvard University.Often referred to as Blaschka glass, the creations of glass are  a collection of almost 4,000 models of flowers, plants, and flower parts, made at Dresden between 1887 and 1936.The Blaschkas,  Leopold (1822-1895) and Rudolf (1857-1939), were father and son glass artists who lived…

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The father-and-son glass artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka sold their handblown marine invertebrate models to universities and museums before the invention of underwater photography. Clockwise from top left, their glass Glaucus atlanticus (the blue sea dragon); Octopus salutii (spider octopus); Stiliger ornatus (sea slug); and the sea anemone Phyllactis praetexta.Credit...President and Fellows of Harvard College; Photos by Joe Michael