#botanical model

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Botanical Model of 'Fly Amanita'.

Artist/Maker: Viktor Dürfeld

Place of origin: Hamburg, Germany

Date: 1890 (Purchased from Chrétian Vetter)

Medium: Plaster, papier-mâché, paper, wood.

[walzerjahrhundert]

R. Brendel, Berlin 

Model of a Wild Geranium (Germanium spec.)

ca. 1890                                    

[the-poisongarden]

Antique botanical model of an enlarged henbane seed pod made of paper mache by Louis Thomas Jerome Auzoux of Paris, France, circa 1865-1884.

Source: Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia.

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎Botanical model of deadly nightshade.

Place of origin: Paris, France

Date: 1875-1885

[love-for-carnation]

Robert Brendel - Modèle botanique d'un Œillet (Dianthus caryophyllus) ca. 1880

[mimi-berlin]

Flower Botanical Models

Maybe more pretty than real flowers, maybe not, either way…Auch Haben!

Four R. Brendel Mixed Media Floral Botanic Models : Lot 1003 liveauctioneers.com

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A Group of Botanical Models

Victorian Botanical model

A Brendel model showing the fruit of a belladonna plant.

A c. 1900 R. Brendel Berlin botanical Model the bean germination, painted papermache, plaster and wood; the leaves probably replaced later out of plastic (?), on turned wood stand with non matching paper description label. Height c. 55 cm. (WU).

from the Brendel catalogue, issued in Berlin in 1913. (property of TU Delft )

Model of a lily flower. The base is made of wood and flower paper mache. Made by Brendel & Company, Germany. ca 1920

Selection of Brendel papier mache teaching models. Photograph from RBGE collection

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Rare Collection of Four R. Brendel Mixed Media Floral Botanic Models, ca. 1900, Berlin, comprising a monkshood, No. 58, overall, h. 19-1/4″, an evening primrose, No. 99, overall, h. 18-1/2″, a common mallow, No. 92, overall, h. 19″, and a military orchid, No. 81a., overall, h. 9″, mounted on turned ebonized wood and rattan stands, each with the original paper label including the Latin classification. The firm of R. Brendel was founded in Breslau, Poland in 1866 by Carl Robert Brendel (ca. 1821-1898), a native of Reichenbach, Silesia (now Dzierzoniow, Poland). The company produced botanical models of medicinal plants with the assistance of pharmacist Dr. Carl Leopold Lohmeyer (1799-1873) in a wide variety of mixed media: wood, plaster, papier-mache, gelatin, lacquer, etc. The models, distinguished by their large scale, precise detail (often at a microscopic level), and their ability to be dismantled to see interior vegetal anatomy, soon became the industry standard in the golden age of botanical modeling. Brendel later produced agronomic specimens under the direction of Ferdinand Julius Cohn (1828-1898), director of the Breslau Agricultural Station), and by the end of the century the company’s roster of consultants included the most important botanists of the day: Alexander Tschirch (1856-1939) of Bern, Emerich Rathay (1845-1900) of Klosterberg, and Leopold Kny (1841-1916) and Carl Mueller (1855-1907) of Berlin. After Brendel’s death on January 22, 1898, the company was assumed by his son Adolf Reinhold Brendel (1862-1927) who moved the firm to Grunewald, a suburb of Berlin. R. Brendel was by then known throughout the world for its botanical models, winning awards at expositions in Cologne (1890), Chicago (1893), Paris (1900), Santiago (1902), St. Louis (1904) and Brussels (1910). The 1913 sales catalogue – distributed among a network of retailers throughout the world – included over 300 specimens ranging from simple models for high schools to complex assemblages for museums and universities.(read more liveauctioneers.com)

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