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Nov 17, 2020 · German biologist and naturalist Ernst Haeckel created detailed scientific illustrations of the world's flora and fauna that helped advocate for Darwinism. His illustrations are remembered to this day as the pinnacle of scientific drawings of the natural world, but he had no formal training in art.
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The published artwork of Haeckel includes over 100 detailed, multi-colour illustrations of animals and sea creatures, collected in his Kunstformen der Natur ("Art Forms of Nature"), a book which would go on to influence the Art Nouveau artistic movement.
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Ernst Haeckel was a German Scientific Illustrator born on February 16, 1834. Haeckel contributed to the Enlightenment movement and died on August 9, 1919. Art Forms in Nature, Plate 17: Siphonophorae 1904
- February 16, 1834
- August 9, 1919
Dec 22, 2017 · Art Meets Science. This 19th-Century Illustrator Found Beauty in the Slimiest of Sea Creatures. A new book chronicles Ernst Haeckel’s life and his gorgeous renderings of wild things—scales,...
Nov 30, 2017 · Taschen's collection of 450 plates pulls together Haeckel's best illustrations across his numerous publications, including the groundbreaking 1899 work, Art Forms of Nature. Here Haeckel emphasized organization and symmetry in this collection of illustrations composed for maximum visual impact.
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The published artwork of Haeckel includes over 100 detailed, multi-colour illustrations of animals and sea creatures, collected in his Kunstformen der Natur, a book which would go on to...
Dimensions: Sheet: 13 5/8 × 10 1/4 in. (34.6 × 26 cm) Classification: Photographs. Credit Line: Joyce Frank Menschel Library, Department of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Accession Number: BHB.110. Photographs at The Met.
