Word: blaschka
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...damage done to the deceptively lifelike reproductions can never be repaired, for with the death of Rudolph Blaschka in 1936 passed the secret of their creation. Leopold Blaschka, founder of the remarkable process, allowed no one but his son to enter their Dresden workshop and never permitted his method to be put on paper...
...University Museum has installed new fluorescent lighting in the glass flower displays, to bring out more exactly the painstaking fidelity to natural colors achieved by the late Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, German artist-naturalists who made the models for Harvard...
World-famous, world-visited are the marvelous glass flowers in Harvard University's Botanical Museum. Each year 250,000 people Oh & Ah at the 847 unique and perfect models which a father and son, Bohemians Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, fashioned during half a century. Much has been made of their "secret." Beyond patient observation, incredible sensitiveness of touch and infinite pains, they had none...
...Leopold Blaschka shipped his first Cowers to Harvard in 1886, as an aid to teaching botany. Thereafter Harvard took the Blaschkas' entire output. Leopold died in 1895, but Rudolph, working on alone, persevered until three years ago when, near 80 and his eyesight failing because of the work, he shipped 15 fruit models to Harvard, soon closed down his studio...
...perpetuated. Said he: "If you will find me someone who has generations of artists working in glass behind him, and who will begin work at the age of ten' and work ten hours a day for ten years, then I could begin to teach him." When Rudolph Blaschka died in Germany last week, no such successor had been found...