Prestel Publishing | ISBN:3791319906 | File Type: PDF, 140 pages | File size: 41.Mb | Aug. 1st, 1998
General Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel 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 owerf 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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