Maker of Harvard Glass Flowers Is Dead In Germany

After supplying the University Museum with glass flowers for over fifty years, Rudolph Blaschka, world-famous German glass-artist, died Monday in his home in Hosterwitz, Germany at the age of 82.

Since Blaschka and his father sent the first shipment of the priceless flowers to Harvard in 1887, the total output of their studio has come here. The last group of flowers to be sent, fifteen fruit models, arrived in 1936. There is nobody to carry on their work, because father and son always did their work without any assistants.

The famous glass flower collection, which attracts an average 250,000 visitors, given in the memory of Charles Eliot Ware, of the class of 1834, represents some 840 species of flowering plants, and more than 8500 sections and magnified details.