Werner, Petra (Author)
It started with copies in drawing lessons, followed by drawings of manatees, orchids, volcanoes. Early Alexander von Humboldt came to the conclusion that illustrations provide valuable text additions. Back from his trip to America, he worked with Joseph Anton Koch, Friedrich Wilhelm Gmelin and Gottlieb Schick, sought readers the "physiognomy of tropical landscape" through works by Rugendas, mountain, Bellermann wishes to do. Also Schinkel helped. Humboldt bought for the Prussian museums and the royal portraits a, acted as a mediator in auction (including the acquisition of collections Minutoli, Dorow, Koller), exchanged views on landscape painting from (Rumohr, scales). His work as Chamberlain and Chancellor of the Order of the Order Pour le Mérite, agent, promoter, as part of a huge network in a nearly 90-year life brought him into contact with almost all major artists and writers of his time. The author has analyzed Archival and art collections and has many tracks followed.
...MoreReview Kanz, Kai Torsten (2014) Review of "Naturwahrheit und ästhetische Umsetzung: Alexander von Humboldt im Briefwechsel mit bildenden Künstlern". Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 400-402).
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Köchy, Kristian;
(2009)
Alexander von Humboldts “Naturgemälde”: Zum Verhältnis von Kunst und Wissenschaft
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Hackmann, Willem;
(2007)
The Iconography of Early Electricity
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Steigerwald, Joan;
(2006)
Figuring Nature/Figuring the (Fe)male: The Frontispiece to Humboldt's Ideas Towards a Geography of Plants
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Fiedler, Horst;
Leitner, Ulrike;
(2000)
Alexander von Humboldts Schriften: Bibliographie der selbständig erschienenen Werke
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Maria Enrica D'Agostini;
(2003)
J.W. Goethe, Alexander e Wihelm von Humboldt in un foglio di laboratorio
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Rupke, Nicolaas;
(2005)
Alexander von Humboldt-Biografik in der DDR
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Andrea Wulf;
(2015)
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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Sandra Rebok;
(2018)
Humboldt’s Exploration at a Distance
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Jon Mathieu;
(2021)
Divergent Perception: Deserts and Mountains in Transition to Modernity, Seen through Alexander von Humboldt’s Views of Nature
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Iannini, Christopher Paul;
(2004)
Fatal Revolutions: United States Natural Histories of the Greater Caribbean, 1707--1856
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Alexander von Humboldt;
(2014)
Views of Nature
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Daston, Lorraine;
(2010)
The Humboldtian Gaze
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McCrory, Donald;
(2010)
Nature's Interpreter: The Life and Times of Alexander von Humboldt
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Pässler, Ulrich;
(2009)
Ein “Diplomat aus den Wäldern des Orinoko”: Alexander von Humboldt als Mittler zwischen Preussen und Frankreich
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Ulrich Päßler;
(2022)
A Prusso-French Connection: The Scientific Friendship between Alexander von Humboldt and François Arago
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Jahn, Ilse;
(2003)
Alexander von Humboldt und die Beziehungen zwischen Pariser und Berliner Zoologen
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Ursula Klein;
(2015)
Humboldts Preußen: Wissenschaft und Technik im Aufbruch
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Pierre-Yves Lacour;
(2014)
La république naturaliste: collections d'histoire naturelle et révolution française (1789-1804)
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Bleichmar, Daniela;
(2006)
Painting as Exploration: Visualizing Nature in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Science
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Bleichmar, Daniela;
(2009)
Visible Empire: Scientific Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment
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