Fly Agaric & Co.: He painted them all

Fly Agaric & Co.: He painted them all

Nice to look at in Hans Walty’s watercolor – but be careful: the Satan mushroom is poisonous and is not allowed in the basket.
Swiss National Library, graphic collection, mushroom panels, Hans Walty, A-1–280

The Swiss painter Hans Walty (1868–1948) created unique mushroom watercolors. A new book presents a selection of his most magnificent drawings.

Mushrooms are among the most fascinating but also most enigmatic phenomena in nature. For centuries they were scary to people – and their consumption carried a fatal risk. First with

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