Blütenstand eines Kopfblütlers (Wurmkraut)

The lithograph illustrates the principle of the axial and the central symmetry, and the regularity in the structure of an inflorescence (Wurmkraut). The print is part of the series of different prints (photolithographs, lithographs, heliotypes) depicting basic forms in nature, such as leaves, flowers, inflorescences, crops, etc. The collection of stylized plant forms designed and drawn by the German painter and reformer of the art education, Moritz Meurer (1839-1916) and his students. The compilation served as a collection of good examples to follow in the fine arts, the applied arts, the crafts and the architecture education at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Rejecting the way of naturalistic depiction of forms, the print shows the inner structure of forms for ornamental drawing studies. Following the general direction of art education in Europe, these prints were used in everyday teaching practice in the Metropolitan Municipal Technical Drawing School (1886-1945) in Budapest. The library item which includes also this print, belonged to the „Library of the Applied Arts and the Education of Craftsmen and Artisans” of the above-mentioned educational institution in the 1920s.
Meurer, Moritz: Blütenstand eines Kopfblütlers (Wurmkraut). Pflanzenformen. Vorbildliche Beispiele zur Einfu?hrung in das ornamentale Studium der Pflanze, zum Gebrauche fu?r Kunstgewerbe- und Bauschulen, Technische Hochschulen und ho?here Unterrichtsanstalten sowie fu?r Architekten und Kunsthandwerker. Dresden : Verlag von Gerhard Ku?htmann, 1895. Abt. I. Taf. 83. © Schola Graphidis Art Collection, Hungarian University of Fine Arts - High School of Visual Arts, Budapest