The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional
precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and
designers to this day. This attractive volume highlights the
research and findings of this outstanding natural scientist.
Powerful modern microscopes have confirmed the accuracy of
HaecKel's prints winch, even in their day, rightly became world
famous.
Haeckel's outstanding portfolio, first published between 1899
and 1904 in separate installments, is described in the opening
essays. The plates illustrate Haeckel's fundamental monistic notion
of the "unity of all living things", and the wide variety of forms
are executed with utmost delicacy. Incipient microscopic organisms
are juxtaposed with highly developed plants and animals. The pages,
ordered according to geometric and "constructive" aspects,
handsomely document the oneness of the world in its most
diversified forms.
This collection of plates was not only well-received by
scientists, but by artists and architects as well. Rene Binet, a
pioneer of glass and iron constructions, Emile Galle, a renowned
Art Nouveau designer, and the photographer Karl Blossfeld all
acknowledge and make explicit reference to Haeckel in their
work.
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