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Strüwe, Carl
(1898-1988)Image from the series "Formen des Mikrokosmus": Bau einer Urpflanze (Meersalge Ballia).

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Image from the series "Formen des Mikrokosmus": Bau einer Urpflanze (Meersalge Ballia). 1930. Vintage gelatin silver print on Agfa-Brovira paper. 16,4 x 12,7 cm. Photographer's/copyright stamp on the verso.

Carl Strüwe is best known for his pioneering work in microphotography from the late 1920s-1950s, culminating in the publication of Formen des Mikrokosmos in 1955. His refined and often delicate images of plant and insect structures reveal an otherwise invisible world, combining scientific observation with a striking sense of form and abstraction.

Literatur: Carl Strüwe. Formen des Mikrokosmos: Gestalt und Gestaltung einer Bilderwelt. Munich: Prestel 1955, ill. p. 23.