Invisible, Extinct and Endangered species | Women Portraits by Gerd Tinglum | Vanessa Bell / Virginia Woolf / Charlotte Brontë / Emily Brontë / George Eliot / Gertrude Stein / Alice B. Toklas / Anna Akhmatova / Katherine Mansfield / Unica Zürn, 1991-2005

Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) Cyperipedium Calceoulus, 1991/2005                        Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) Arnica Alpina, 1991/2005

 Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) Saxifraga Hirculus, 1991/2005                 Emily Jane Brontë (1818–1848) Rhododendron Lapponicum, 1991/2005

Alice B. Toklas (1877–1967) Hydrocharis Morus Ranæ, Extinct, 1991/2005             Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) Crepis Multicaulis, Extinct, 1991/2005

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Nigritella Nigra, Highly Endangered, 1991/2005       Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) Schoenus Nigricans, Extinct, 1991/2005

Unica Zürn (1916–1970) Viola Hirta, 1991/2005                         George Eliot (1819–1880) Glaucium Flavium, 1991/2005

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) Lemna Gibba, Extinct, 1991/2005                    Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987) Epigogium Aphyllum, 1991/2005

In 1991 Gerd Tinglum exhibited a series called Invisible, extinct and endangered species, 

featuring thirty portraits of women each partly obscured by a plant.