ostraciidae fine art print ernst haeckel Size:70×100 cm design and architecture in Germany

design and architecture in Germany

Few birds invite a closer look like the hummingbird

he spent years studying the smallest creatures of the sea and believed their overlooked beauty deserved a place on the wall beside any masterpiece — a conviction that helped inspire the organic motifs of Art Nouveau

Cross strictly carried out the pointillism method of placing color dots next to each other at the beginning

1896 saw him moving to Munich where he worked as an illustrator for the Meggendorfer-Blätter and others

ostraciidae fine art print ernst haeckel Size:70×100 cm design and architecture in GermanyBoxfish are the eccentrics of the reef rigid, geometric and patterned like something designed rather than evolved and this Haeckel plate makes the most of their charm. Trunkfish and their relatives are arranged across the sheet in yellows, blues and spotted designs, their boxy, armoured bodies giving the composition an almost playful, graphic quality. The illustration comes from Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Ernst Haeckel's series of