Description: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The condition is clean and flat with superb color saturation and no creases or rips. The Cocoa Company edited three series with 30 plates each. All illustrations are from Heinrich Harder or F. John. Some are unsigned. Wilhelm Bölsche (1861 - 1939) was a German author, editor and publicist. He studied philosophy, art history and archaeology in Bonn from 1883 to 1885 and then moved to Berlin where he became a central figure in the “Friedrichshagener Dichterkreis“ poets society. Despite that most of his work covers natural history topics, he was not a naturalist but a person who popularized natural matter as a layperson to an unaware public. Nevertheless his publishing of "Das Liebesleben in der Natur“ (The Love Life in Nature) in 1898 was the key for creating modern fact books in Germany. Bölsche also initiated the first German folk high school, the “Freie Hochschule Berlin” in 1902 and was an important instigator for the “Lebensreformbewegung” (Humanistic Naturalism – key note: “Back to Nature”) in Germany. He wrote for "Freie Volksbühne" and edited the most important cultural history review of the day, “Freie Bühne“ (Free Stage) and popularized his free-thinking monism knowledge - especially the innovating school of Charles Darwin and Ernst Haeckel in dozens of self-edited books and series released by “Kosmos-Verlag“ in Stuttgart collaborating with the Berlin artist Heinrich Harder. Heinrich Harder (1858-1935) was a German artist and art professor at Berlin University. He was originally a landscape painter who exhibited at the Grosse Berliner Kunstaustellung in 1891. His paintings were inspired by the scenery of Sweden, Switzerland, the Harz Mountains, and other locales. He also illustrated natural history articles. These included a series accompanying Wilhelm Bölsche articles on earth history for "Die Gartenlaube" a weekly magazine. Harder went on to become an art professor at the Berlin University. In 1900 the "Kakao Compagnie Theodor Reichardt GmbH" (Reichardt Cocoa Company) had been issuing this series of collector illustrations of prehistoric animals and Heinrich Harder was recruited to illustrate two series of them, for a total of 60 illustrations. Wilhelm Bölsche himself wrote the description of the creatures for the back.
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Animal Class: Prehistoric
Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany
