Karl Blossfeldt. Why had I not heard of him before?!?

I just found some photogravures of his on e-Bay (if you’re reading this DO NOT bid on them). My breath is taken away. Literally. I am gasping and wheezing and getting dizzy with the utter amazement…

They’re seedpods. SEEDPODS do you hear? I’m obsessed with drawing and collecting these things, and here they are REAL ART– and etchings none the less. I will be dreaming of them… for a long time. I will have some on my walls. You mark my words. They speak to me…

UPDATE: Barry bid and won a couple of prints the other night. They are photogravures printed from copper plates, the flower bud one in 1942 and the stem in 1929. I’ve still got my eye on some more. My first real art investments!