Bodil Strubberg

Bodil Strubberg (1883-1975) was educated as a visual artist first at the Arts and Crafts School for Women, later at the Academy of Fine Arts. It was especially as a most talented illustrator of scientific motifs she became widely known and recognized. With impressive accuracy she was able to reproduce the worlds flora & fauna on different scales. At the Agricultural University she worked for several of the academic professionals - thus for J.E.V. Boas zoological textbooks (the later editions from 1916 after Carl Cordts death) and for Sofie Rostrups plant pathology textbooks. She also prepared a large number of training plates & furthermore the distinguihed plates for the second volume of Boas/Paullis large folio The Elephants head, 1925. 

Below a few examples of original drawings to Sofie Rostrups textbooks Vort lands skadedyr (VLS) 4/5. editions 1928/1940  & Haveplanternes Skadedyr (HS) 1933 + 2. edition 1945. The library has many of these originals in a special collection. In addition some training plates (KVL) are presented with Strubbergs signature BS & a few plates from The Elephants head. 

VLS1928 fig. 2: Red clover invaded by Tylenchus VLS1928 fig. 15: Tragopogon porrifolins invaded by the milkwhite females of  Tylenchus VLS1928 fig. 34: Garden pea pods malformed by pea thrips  VLS1928 fig. 45: Grain aphis
VLS1928 fig. 62: Cockchaper - male

VLS1928 fig. 79: Potato gnawed through by the maggots of Agriotes lineatus

VLS1928 fig. 140: Pea pod gnawed by the maggots of Cydia migricana VLS1928 fig. 158: Grains of wheat gnawed by the maggots of Apamea sordens

VLS1940 fig.15: Sugar beet with adventuous roots filled with the females of Heterodera schachti  VLS1940 fig. 45: Trioza viridula as larva & insect VLS 1940 fig. 201: Barley corn gnawed by the maggot of Oscinella  VLS1940 fig. 216: Rutabaga invaded by the maggots of Chortophila floralis
HS1933 fig. 7: Strawberry plant invaded by strawberry eel HS1933 fig. 27: Tachycines asynamorus HS1933 fig. 35: Ficus leaf with thrips HS1933 fig. 55: Aleurodidae on a leaf - larvae & insect 
HS1933 fig. 112: Larvae & eggs - Asparagus beetle  HS1933 fig. 209: Apple invaded by the maggots of Carpocapsa pomonella HS1933 fig. 253: Maggots of Malacosuma neustria on a partly defoliated apple bough HS1933 fig. 271: Contarinia pyrivora - chrysalis, cocoon & larva
HS1945 fig. 48: Apples sucked up by bugs HS1945 fig. 49: Rhododendron bug - larva with wings HS1945 fig. 164: Anisandrus dispar - female on top & male HS1945 fig. 278: Thecla betulae
KVL plate: Musca domestica - egg KVL plate: left -  Musca domestica puparium, right - Stomaxys calcitrames puparium KVL plate: Lyda arvensis - female KVL plate: Tremex fuscocornis
KVL plate: Syrphus arcuatus - imago & larva KVL plate: Chrysopa - larva, eggs & imago KVL plate: Haematobia stimulans KVL plate: left - Corymbites aeneus, right - Lacon murinus
KVL plate: Xyloterus domesticus - imagines (male & female), chrysalis & larva  KVL plate: Hylostrupes bajulus

KVL plate: Scolytus ratzeburgi - male & right - Scolytus intricatus

 KVL plate: Hylobius abietis
Many more plates are presented in the Pictorial base Undervisningstavler fra Landbohøjskolen (only Danish text) where many are prepared by Bodil Strubberg, but also by other illustrators for many years at the Agricultural university. Most of these plates have no signature.
Unique plates by Bodil Strubberg used for the litographs in the folio The Elephants head,  Vol. 2, 1925 - see more in this webexhibition.