1899,HAECKEL ART FORMS BRYOZOA CREATURES GC

1899,HAECKEL ART FORMS BRYOZOA CREATURES GC (image 1/1)
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Title KUNSTFORMEN DER NATUR (Art Forms in Nature) . Author Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (1834-1919). Date 1899-1904 Sizes 10 " 1/2 x 14" 1/2 (27x37 cm) . Descri ption First Edition numbered Lithograph . Other plates Other Plates . KUNSTFORMEN DER NATUR 1899-1904 We are currently offering a selection of spectacular prints from the "Kunsformer Der Nature", published Leipzig by Ernst Heackel, in one volume in 1904 with 100 Folio Lithographs. Heackel was a German Physician and nature philosopher. He was born in 1834 in Potsdam, Germany. Although he studied medicine in his youth, and passed the state medical examination in 1858, he never practiced. Haeckel was early on far more attracted to the study of the natural world, especially zoology and comparative studies of microscopic anatomy. Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature) was published between 1899 as a series of ten portfolios, each containing ten prints. The folios contained little text, and Haeckel's intention was clearly to present these impressive visual renderings to the general public. The plates were prepared by Adolf Giltsch, a lithographer active in Jena, and the publication made Haeckel a household name. Some of the plates depict radiolaria, others reflect Haeckel's work promoting Darwin's and his own related views on evolution. The plates in Art Forms in read more
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