Word: blaschkas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...history of the Blaschka models goes back to 1886 and the founding of Harvard's Botanical Museum, now a part of Agassiz, when Professor George L. Goodale was searching for a practical means of including a collection of plant life in the new museum. Dried plants were out of the question, and wax copies were too crude. At the Comparative Zoology Museum he saw several small glass reproductions of jellyfish and conceived the idea of modelling flowers in glass. The same year he hurried to Germany to present his plans to Leopold Blaschka, creator of the marine life done...
...only such exhibit in the world today, the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models, as both a scientific study and an artistic curiosity, has been one of Harvard University's most valuable possessions...
...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...