Object Details
- Description
- Robert Brendel began in business in Breslau in 1866, making lovely and accurate models of enlarged flowers, and winning medals at major exhibitions: Moscow (1872), Cologne (1890), and Chicago (1893). Following Brendel’s death in 1898, his son Reinhold moved the firm to a suburb of Berlin and won several more exhibition medals.
- Ref: Graziana Fiorini, Luana Maekawa, and Peter Stiberc, “Save the Plants: Conservation of Brendel Anatomical Botany Models,” The Book and Paper Group Annual 27 (2008): 35-45
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Brendel
- Credit Line
- University of Minnesota, School of Pharmacy
- Physical Description
- papier mache (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- plaster (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall (approx.): 18 in x 11 in x 11 in; 45.72 cm x 27.94 cm x 27.94 cm
- overall: 17 3/4 in x 10 in x 10 in; 45.085 cm x 25.4 cm x 25.4 cm
- Object Name
- Botanical Model
