Ernst Haeckel couldn’t make up his mind which ... meticulous patterning and almost photographic art glorifying the human form. Art Nouveau sought inspiration, not in human endeavour, but the ...

Art Nouveau’s organic shapes surfaced thanks ... the zoological illustrations of 19th-century German biologist Ernst Haeckel were appreciated by viewers as much for their style as their science.

Fungi, Art Forms in Nature, 1899–1904, plate 63. All images ©Taschen / Lower Saxony State / University Library Göttingen unless otherwise stated You might not know Ernst Haeckel’s name, but you will ...

The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel, a book written by Olaf Breidbach and published by Prestel. Haeckel’s drawings are credited with inspiring the Art Nouveau and Surrealist movements.

Gallé was one of the founders of art nouveau, an influential art and design ... Gallé was aware of Darwin's work by 1877 and owned a copy of Ernst Haeckel's Art Forms in Nature (1899–1904).

A new monograph reveals Ernst Haeckel’s marvelous work in all its incredible detail. Not all contributions to science come in the form of numbers. For instance, the German biologist Ernst ...

The stunning image that opens the Siphonophorae chapter in The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel. Each gelatinous siphonophore is actually a group of colonial organisms all living and working together.

No other scientist had the capacity to make such beautiful works of art while also depicting organisms very accurately. Many of Haeckel’s contemporaries thought that he went too far with his stylistic ...