What is your favorite Ernst Haeckel drawing?

I don't have a favorite - maybe Orchid or Red Algae. I also like this one: I am amazed at how much his scientific drawings resemble the work of William Morris. read more

So it was with the German Ernst Haeckel. In 1899 he began to publish Art Forms of Nature (Kunstformen der Natur in his native German). A contemporary of Darwin, Haeckel would, through his lithographic prints, change the way that many considered the relationship between art and science. read more

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (German:; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist, and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, and Protista. read more