Blooming cacti
Blooming Cacti (Iconographia Cactacearum) is a work with cactus images and accompanying texts published on behalf of the German Cactus Society from 1900 to 1921 in 45 booklets with four panels each . It was published by J. Neumann Verlag in Neudamm and was designed as a supplement to Karl Moritz Schumann's general description of cacti . The drawings were made by Toni Gürke, Max Gürke's wife . Issues 1 to 12 were edited by Karl Schumann, issues 13 to 32 by Max Gürke and the other issues by Friedrich Vaupel .
History of origin
During the publication of Karl Moritz Schumann's complete description of cacti from 1897 to 1899, members of the German Cactus Society repeatedly asked the board of directors for a colored illustration of cacti . The board of directors commissioned Julius Neumann (1844–1928), who in addition to Schumann's work, among other things, published the company's monthly magazine for cacti to determine the cost of such a work. On March 23, 1899 there was a meeting of 14 members and five guests at the Berlin club “Hopfenblüte” Unter den Linden No. 27, where Neumann presented his ideas. A chromolithografische making the pictures would be too expensive due to the limited supply. With the use of hand-colored lithographs, however, four booklets with four plates could be published annually at a price of 3 marks , if the German Cactus Society would support them with an annual subsidy of around 250 marks . At the annual general meeting on June 4, 1899 in Halberstadt , the executive board was authorized to implement this plan by unanimous decision.
The title of the publication was determined at the June meeting of the German Cactus Society. A month later, the board was able to inspect the watercolors planned for the second issue . At the beginning of 1900 the board of directors was optimistic that nothing would stand in the way of an early publication of the “Iconographie”. However, the publication was delayed again and again due to technical problems. The official issue date of the first issue was October 16, 1900.
Illustrations
The individual columns have the following meanings:
- Volume : Volume in which the picture appeared
- Booklet : Booklet in which the picture appeared
- Board : Number of the board
- Title : Name of the panel
- Taxon : Name of the species / subspecies according to today's nomenclature. A question mark (?) Indicates that the taxon is not in Edward F. Anderson: The Great Cactus Lexicon . Eugen Ulmer KG, Stuttgart 2005 (translated by Urs Eggli), ISBN 3-8001-4573-1 .
- Illustration : Detail from the blackboard
Date of issue of the supplies
The following information on the date of issue of the deliveries is taken from the respective volume.
- part 1
- Issue 1: panels 1 to 4; October 16, 1900
- Booklet 2: plates 5 to 8; November 25, 1900
- Booklet 3: plates 9 to 12; March 22, 1901
- Booklet 4: plates 13 to 16; July 30, 1901
- Issue 5: plates 17 to 20; November 29, 1901
- Booklet 6: plates 21 to 24; March 25, 1902
- Booklet 7: plates 25 to 28; July 31, 1902
- Booklet 8: plates 29 to 32; November 14, 1902
- Issue 9: plates 33 to 36; February 19, 1903
- Issue 10: plates 37 to 40; June 10, 1903
- Issue 11: plates 41 to 44; August 22, 1903
- Issue 12: plates 45 to 48; December 10, 1903
- Issue 13: plates 49 to 52; August 1, 1904
- Issue 14: plates 53 to 56; October 20, 1904
- Issue 15: plates 57 to 60; January 1, 1905.
- Volume 2
- Issue 16: plates 61 to 64; April 1, 1905
- Issue 17: plates 65 to 68; May 28, 1905
- Issue 18: plates 69 to 72; 5th August 1905
- Issue 19: plates 73 to 76; November 15, 1905
- Issue 20: plates 77 to 80; March 1, 1906
- Issue 21: plates 81 to 84; August 1, 1906
- Issue 22: plates 85 to 88; December 20, 1906
- Issue 23: plates 89 to 92; March 20, 1907
- Issue 24: plates 93 to 96; August 10, 1907
- Issue 25: Plate 97 to 100; December 1, 1907
- Issue 26: plates 101 to 104; May 15, 1908
- Issue 27: plates 105 to 108; September 30, 1908
- Issue 28: plates 109 to 112; March 1, 1909
- Issue 29: plates 113 to 116; August 1, 1909
- Issue 30: plates 117 to 120; January 15, 1910
- Volume 3
- Issue 31: plates 121 to 124; November 1, 1910
- Issue 32: plates 125 to 128; May 15, 1911, text plate 125 Leopold Quehl (1849–1922) and plate 125 to 128 Wilhelm Weingart (1856–1936).
- Issue 33: plates 129 to 132; November 10, 1911
- Issue 34: plates 133 to 136; March 15, 1912
- Issue 35: plates 137 to 140; July 15, 1912
- Issue 36: plates 141 to 144; December 1, 1912
- Issue 37: plates 145 to 148; April 1, 1913
- Issue 38: plates 149 to 152; July 15, 1913
- Issue 39: plates 153 to 156; November 1, 1913
- Issue 40: plates 157 to 160; May 1, 1914
- Issue 41: plates 161 to 164; July 1, 1914
- Issue 42: plates 165 to 168; August 1, 1916
- Issue 43: plates 169 to 172; October 1, 1921
- Issue 44: plates 173 to 176; October 1, 1921
- Issue 45: plates 177 to 180; October 1, 1921
proof
literature
- Karl Schumann, Max Gürke, Friedrich Vaupel (eds.): Blooming cacti (Iconographia Cactacearum) . 3 volumes, Julius Neumann, Neudamm 1900–1921.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Valentin Scholz, Hermann Stützel (ed.): Chronicle of the German Cactus Society eV Printing Bernd Wilhelm, Würzburg 1999 ( special issue of the German Cactus Society ), pp. 27–28.
- ^ Karl Hirscht: June meeting of the German Cactus Society . In: K. Schumann (Ed.): Monthly for Kakteenkunde . Volume 9, number 7, J. Neumann, Neudamm 1899, p. 111 (online) .
- ^ Karl Hirscht: July meeting of the German Cactus Society . In: K. Schumann (Ed.): Monthly for Kakteenkunde . Volume 9, number 8, J. Neumann, Neudamm 1899, p. 127 (online) .
- ↑ Karl Hirscht: What have we achieved . In: K. Schumann (Ed.): Monthly for Kakteenkunde . Volume 10, number 1, J. Neumann, Neudamm 1900, pp. 3-4 (online) .
- ↑ Karl Hirscht: Seventh Annual General Report of the German Cactus Society submitted at the Annual General Meeting on May 27, 1900 . In: K. Schumann (Ed.): Monthly for Kakteenkunde . Volume 10, number 6, J. Neumann, Neudamm 1900, pp. 90-91 (online) .
- ↑ a b c Georg Bornemann (1862–1915) cf. Phyllokaktuszucht by Georg Bornemann (accessed on June 2, 2012).