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Aug 3, 2019 · One scientist who recorded his findings with drawings is Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, and physician. Made during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his brilliantly colorful and highly stylized drawings, watercolors, and sketches reveal how different forms of plant life appear under the microscope.
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.
Nov 17, 2020 · 33 Stunning Illustrations From 19th-Century Naturalist Ernst Haeckel That Merge Art And Science. By Natasha Ishak. Published November 17, 2020. Before there were cameras, German biologist Ernst Haeckel's vibrant scientific illustrations illuminated newly-discovered species — but his writings inspired the Nazis.
The center and bottom-center images are Desmonema annasethe; the tentacles reminded Haeckel of his late wife's long flowing hair. Kunstformen der Natur (known in English as Art Forms in Nature) is a book of lithographic and halftone prints by German biologist Ernst Haeckel.
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
Nov 30, 2017 · German book publisher Taschen has reprinted his incredible drawings in an a new art book, The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel, presenting how he promoted Charles Darwin's theories of evolution at a time when the ideas were under attack.
Art Forms in Nature: Marine Species From Ernst Haeckel. (Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur / Biodiversity Heritage Library) by Grace Costantino. Today’s discoveries about our planet’s biological diversity build upon the research of previous generations of scientists.
