Anton Seder Puzzle Finished!

The 2000-piece puzzle is finished and not a moment too soon. I need that table to do the taxes, and I sure need to get cracking on that project! The puzzle was a gift from Omer. Very nice, Om! Puzzle, botany, hard enough to be a challenge.

This is an art work by the German artist Anton Seder (1850-1916). His work is considered Art Nouveau. I had not previously heard of him. Most of his work seems to be detailed panels of naturalistic themes. Here's the whole puzzle although the colors look richer in real life. It seems to be unnamed.

In general the theme of this piece is botany. It's stuffed with plants, some of them with Latin labels.

This is more like 50 or more tiny puzzles. I quit trying to count all the different spaces. Some are as small as 1x2 inches. There are about 10 of what I'd call major sections. Thus, this became a giant sorting puzzle. Ask yourself, "Is this maroon piece with strawberries on the edge like this maroon piece with gold leaves?" Once you got all the similar pieces together, it wasn't too hard to assemble them. Then you just needed to connect the sections.

Here is one of my favorite panels with a woodland scene.

Most were more stylized plants like these three parallel panels with lilies.

I liked this one a lot with the Prussian blue background and daisies.

This one was the hardest. There was so much tiny detail that even sorted it was hard to find the connections.

It won't get to stay up long because, as I said, I need the table.

I edited, I worked on some projects, I finished the puzzle.

See Leaving the Puzzle Behind