siphonophorae jellyfish fine art print ernst haeckel katze He was a major contributor

He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production

and plant environmental forms such as flowers and trees

Title: "American Flamingo"

including African masks that he viewed at Parisian museums and Japanese prints

Creator: Alphonse Mucha

siphonophorae jellyfish fine art print ernst haeckel katze He was a major contributorAmong the strangest creatures Haeckel ever drew, the siphonophores are not single animals at all but floating colonies of specialised parts working as one relatives of the Portuguese man o' war. In this spectacular plate, their chains of bells, floats and trailing filaments stretch and branch across the sheet in delicate pinks, blues and violets, a composition that is as biologically astonishing as it is beautiful. The illustration belongs to