Anatomical Model Of A Pea Flower , Pisum Savitum, Brendel

anatomical model of a cultivated pea, Pisum savitum, Lathyrus
can be dismantled into several parts
Robert Brendel and his son Reinhold Brendel created around a hundred large flower designs in Berlin and Breslau at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. The models are made of papier-mâché, but with other materials such as wood, cotton, ratan, rush pulp, glass beads, feathers and gelatin. The Brendels also created models of fruits and mushrooms. Some models are removable. Brendel models are faithful, large-scale, removable reproductions of plants or details of plants, mushrooms and details (germination, flower, fruit, flowering organs, etc.). They were made of paper mache, wood and other materials, painted with oil and varnished by hand, in the German workshops of the Brendel manufacturers. First produced by Robert Brendel (1821-1898) from 1866, then by his son Reinhold Brendel (1861-1927), the models refer to the macroscopic and microscopic observations of the pharmacist Carl Leopold Lohmeyer (1799-1873) and the botanist Ferdinand Cohn (1828-1898). These are innovative, precise and valuable educational tools which were then sold by catalog, correspondence or through merchants to respond in particular to the new teaching methods of the time. Brendel flowers arouse more and more enthusiasm among collectors for their refined aesthetics