Julius Schäffer

Julius Schäffer (1882, Markgröningen – 1944, Diessen am Ammersee): teacher, mycologist, specialist e. g. for the genera Agaricus, Cortinarius and Russula.

For biography and bibliography see Schäffer L., Zeitschr. Pilzk. 33(3–4): 49–74 (1967). More than 900 of his watercolour drawings of Basidiomycetes (mainly Agaricales and Russulales) are housed in the Botanische Staatssammlung München. The exemplary imaging and image editing of eight water colours by Julius Schäffer was done by staff members of the BSM in 1996.


Agaricus bitorquis (Quél.) Sacc.

Agaricus praeclaresquamosus E. M. Freeman


Amanita lepiotoides Barla (This water colour is copied from Barla 1888, pl. 8 bis, fig. 1, 3, 5, 6. )

Bolbitius titubans (Bull. : Fr.) Fr.




Inocybe oblectabilis (Britzelm.) Sacc.
Lyophyllum fumosum (Pers. : Fr.) Orton

Russula nitida (Pers. : Fr.) Fr.

Tricholoma acerbum (Bull. : Fr.) Quél.