Ernst Haeckel
Actiniae
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Floral & botanical
Kunstformen der Natur (Tafel 51)
Ernst Haeckel, 1899–1904
A dozen colonial radiolarians drift across the page in yellow and blue-grey, drawn with Haeckel's careful eye for delicate natural form.
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About this artwork
This is plate 51 from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, a lithograph devoted to Collosphaera and the Polycyttaria. It presents a dozen colonial radiolarians, each one a tiny organism drawn at a scale that lets us study its structure. The palette is restrained, built around yellow and blue-grey, which gives the arrangement a calm, even rhythm. Haeckel was a zoologist and naturalist as well as an artist, and the plate shows how closely those interests were joined in his work. It rewards a slow look, as each form reveals its own pattern.
On your wall: Its soft yellow and blue-grey tones suit studies, living rooms and quiet hallways, particularly where a natural-history or botanical mood is wanted.
- Title
- Kunstformen der Natur (Tafel 51)
- Artist
- Ernst Haeckel
- Year
- 1899–1904
- Style
- Floral & botanical
- Shape
- Portrait
Public domain. Image via Wikimedia Commons.
Text based on Wikimedia Commons.
About Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel was a German zoologist, naturalist, physician and professor who also worked as an artist. He described and named thousands of new species, drew a family tree linking all living things, and coined terms such as ecology and phylum. He helped introduce Charles Darwin's ideas to Germany.
Based on Wikipedia.
Canvas and printing
Printed on canvas and stretched over a 2 cm FSC-certified wooden frame, with the image wrapping around the edges. Framed versions sit in a wooden floater frame in black, natural or dark wood.
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