Ernst Haeckel
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Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist. He discovered, described and named thousands of ne
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Ernst Haeckel, Christmas of 1860, at the age of 26.
Ernst Haeckel in later life
Sea anemones from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (Art forms in Nature) of 1904
Kunstformen der Natur
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Kunstformen der Natur is a book of lithographic and halftone prints by German biologist Ernst Haeckel.
Ernst Haeckel
…matter of debate. 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 in Nature"), a book which would go on to influence the Art Nouveau artistic movement. As a philosopher, Ernst Haeckel wrote Die Welträthsel…
The 8th print, Discomedusae. The center and bottom-center images are Desmonema annasethe.
Anthomedusa (Anthomedusae)
Siphonophore (Siphonophorae)