Leopold Blaschka

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Leopold Blaschka was a 19th-century glass artist and naturalist renowned for his extraordinarily detailed glass models of plants and marine invertebrates created with his son Rudolf.

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instanceOf glass artist
naturalist
person
artForm glass sculpture
scientific model making
basedIn Dresden
centuryOfActivity 19th century
countryOfCitizenship Austrian Empire
dateOfBirth 1822-07-27
dateOfDeath 1895-07-03
employerOrClient Cornell University
Harvard University
ethnicGroup Czech
familyName Blaschka
fieldOfWork botany
marine biology
scientific illustration
genre scientific model
givenName Leopold
hasChild Rudolf Blaschka
heritage Bohemian
knownFor accuracy of anatomical detail in glass models
use of lampworking techniques
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned German
materialUsed glass
movement scientific realism
notableCollectionLocation Corning Museum of Glass
Dresden
Harvard Museum of Natural History
notableFor collaboration with his son Rudolf Blaschka
highly detailed glass models of marine invertebrates
highly detailed glass models of plants
notableWork Glass Flowers
glass botanical models
glass models of marine invertebrates
occupation glass artist
naturalist
placeOfBirth Austrian Empire
Bohemia
Böhmisch Aicha
placeOfDeath Dresden
Kingdom of Saxony
sexOrGender male
usedFor museum displays
university teaching collections
workTogetherWith Rudolf Blaschka


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