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    A scientist working on his theories
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  • Plate 7 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch

    Epibulia. / Siphonophorae. Staatsquallen.

    Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch

    Plate 7 from Kunstformen der Natur. This is one of the 100 pop science biology illustrations that were published from 1899 – 1904 in Leipzig by Ernst Haeckel through Verlag des Bibliographischen...
  • Plate 9 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch

    Maeandrina. / Hexacoralla. Sechsstrahlige…

    Litho van Ernst Haeckel en Adolf Giltsch

    Plate 9 from Kunstformen der Natur. Hexacoralla: Subclass of corals, which include sea anemones, stony corals and soft corals. 
  • Plate 5 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch

    Ascandra. / Calcispongiae. Kalkschwämme.

    Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch

    Plate 5 from Kunstformen der Natur. Calcispongiae: Marine sponges with c alcareous skeletons

  • Porpema. / Siphonophorae. Staatsquallen. (test)

    Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch

    Plate 17 from Kunstformen der Natur. Siphonophorae: Subclass of Hydrozoa, sea animal related to jellyfish and corals.
  • Plate 1 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch

    Circogonia. / Phaeodaria. Rohrstrahlinge. (test)

    Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch

    Plate 1 from Kunstformen der Natur. Phaeodaria; (Radiolaria) single-celled organisms also known as zooplankton.
  • Plate 10 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch

    Ophiothrix Ophiodea. / Schlangensterne.

    Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch

    Plate 10 from Kunstformen der Natur. Ophiodea: Brittle stars, closely related to starfish. Characterised by a small round like body and five long, thin arms.  
  • Plate 3 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch

    Stentor. / Ciliata. Wimperlinge.

    Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch

    Plate 3 from Kunstformen der Natur. Ciliata: Complex single-celled organisms with a short hairlike surface. Hence the name that comes from the Latin word Cilia which means eyelash. 
  • Plate 2 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch

    Globigerina. / Thalamophora. Kammerlinge. (test)

    Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch

    Plate 2 from Kunstformen der Natur. This is one of the 100 pop science biology illustrations that were published from 1899 – 1904 in Leipzig by Ernst Haeckel through Verlag des Bibliographischen...
  • Plate 8 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch

    Desmonema. / Discomedusae. Scheibenquallen.

    Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch

    Plate 8 from Kunstformen der Natur. Discomedusae: Subclass of Scyphozoa (jellyfish) 
  • Plate 6 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch

    Tubuletta. / Tubulariae. Röhrenpolypen.

    Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch

    Plate 6 from Kunstformen der Natur. Tubulariae: Genus of Hydroids, animals related to jellyfish and have strong visual similarities to them such as a compact, mostly round body with long strings...
  • Plate 4 Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch

    Triceratium. / Diatomea. Schachtellinge.

    Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch

    Plate 4 from Kunstformen der Natur. Diatomea: Single-celled organisms also know als algae 
  • book: Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch 1 Jan 1900

    Kunstformen der Natur, Lieferung 9

    Issue 9 of Kunstformen der Natur, consisting of 10 lithographs by German biologist Ernst Haeckel and lithographer Adolf Giltsch. Ten of these loose-leaf issues were published between 1899 and 1904.

  • Haeckel’s Alalus: on the decolonization of the…

    Haeckel’s imagined Pithecanthropus Alalus is a conception of an “ape-man without speech”. In other words, Haeckel’s Alalus is a conception of a proto-human or a being-not-yet-men, and its lack of...

  • Kunstformen der Natur

    Exhibition of Ernst Haeckel’s biology art

    From 1899 till 1904 Ernst Haeckel published 100 amazingly beautiful biological lithographs

  • Haeckel-File #1: Haeckel the racist

    Maybe you have lately visited the Amsterdam library and its exhibition on slavery. If so, you probably came across this drawing from Haeckel. To our twenty-first century eyes, this is quite a...

  • Haeckel in glass

    Mediamatic is not the only one paying homage to Ernst Haeckel's Kunsformen der Natur - The Dutch National Glass Museum have turned his work into "A Sea of Glass"
  • book: Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch 1 Jan 1900

    Kunstformen der Natur, Lieferung 7

    Issue 7 of Kunstformen der Natur, consisting of 10 lithographs by German biologist Ernst Haeckel and lithographer Adolf Giltsch. Ten of these loose-leaf issues were published between 1899 and 1904.
  • book: Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch 1 Jan 1900

    Kunstformen der Natur, Lieferung 5

    Issue 5 of Kunstformen der Natur, consisting of 10 lithographs by German biologist Ernst Haeckel and lithographer Adolf Giltsch. Ten of these loose-leaf issues were published between 1899 and 1904.

  • Terrorism gives power

    to the Government...

    On Wednesday the 9th of February, a benefit was held for Steve Kurtz, the artist from the Critical Art Ensemble who was arrested under suspicion of bioterrorism. He had a lab in his house where he...

  • Proteus

    Documentary film by David LeBrun

    This animated documentary charts the life of painter and biologist Ernst Haeckel, who, in the 19th century, makes a number of fascinating discoveries about what lurks below the sea. Haeckel uncovers...
  • book: Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch 1 Jan 1900

    Kunstformen der Natur, Lieferung 10

    Issue 10 of Kunstformen der Natur, consisting of 10 lithographs by German biologist Ernst Haeckel and lithographer Adolf Giltsch. Ten of these loose-leaf issues were published between 1899 and 1904.

  • Mediamatic Magazine 9#1

    spring 1998

    The Secret Agent Issue When a government no longer knows how to solve a problem within the borders of legislation and the tolerance of public opinion, it calls on the secret agent.
  • book: Hendrik P. Berlage

    Berlage drawings

    Hendrik P. Berlage 's designs are based on the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk, meaning that the architect not only designs the building, but is also involved in the interior design, taking care of...

  • Proposal Mycotecture and Edible Architecture

    Myceleum facilitates Edible Architecture

    Mycotecture: Solid Buildings that are part of the Natural Food Chain

created Anastasia Lvova modified Chris Kok

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