melethallia algae fine art print ernst haeckel watercolor painting Ernst Haeckel drew these colonial

Ernst Haeckel drew these colonial polyps — tiny relatives of jellyfish and coral — as branching

intelligent and a little mysterious

and plates like this one show exactly why designers of the Art Nouveau era looked to his work for inspiration

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Moser designed a wide array of art works

melethallia algae fine art print ernst haeckel watercolor painting Ernst Haeckel drew these colonialThis plate turns the humblest of organisms colonial algae into a study of pure, repeating pattern. Ernst Haeckel arranged these microscopic plant forms into rosettes, networks and clusters of soft green and gold, the kind of natural geometry that feels almost like wallpaper or textile design rather than a page from a science book. It is one of the 100 lithographs in Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Haeckel's hugely influential series. A