Carl-Alexander von Volborth [SEP] place of death
Carl-Alexander von Volborth
Carl-Alexander von Volborth (February 21, 1919, Berlin - February 25, 2009, Antwerp) was a German-born American heraldic artist and heraldist.
Born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, von Volborth received the Gustaf von Numers Prize 1984 in the XVIth International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences in Helsinki. He was a member of HEROLD, Verein für Heraldik, Genealogie und verwandte Wissenschaften zu Berlin e. V. from 1990 and a member of Académie Internationale d'Héraldique.
Von Volborth lived and
and the Craft and Merchant Guilds of the city of London, commissioned by local authorities, schools, universities, and private collectors executed to the highest standards is recognisable for the high complexity of composition, rich detail, and created almost 3-D visual effect .
Publications.
Wood is a co-author of "A European Armorial".
The masterful samples of his art were included in "The Art of Heraldry" by Carl-Alexander von Volborth, published in 1987.
"A Dictionary of Heraldry" (