Science Art: 100 years of international meteorological collaboration, by Karl Oskar Blase, 1973.

2 July 2023 grant Featured, Science Art 0

Scientific illustration of a meteorological diagram on a postage stamp. Looping black lines of atmospheric pressure mark an area where a warm front moves northeast where two cold fronts converge heading south.
Scientific illustration of a meteorological diagram on a postage stamp. Looping black lines of atmospheric pressure mark an area where a warm front moves northeast where two cold fronts converge heading south.

30 pfennigs could get you a lot of weather back in 1973 in West Germany.

It commemorates a century of teaming up to watch the weather.

The artist, Karl Oskar Blase, has a bit more in the way of fine art cred than a lot of the illustrators featured here. He was a museum curator, painter, and designer who’s been featured in at least two recent shows at MoMA.