peromedusae jellyfish fine art print ernst haeckel Size:70×100 cm intellectual elegance to a study

intellectual elegance to a study

Trunkfish and their relatives are arranged across the sheet in yellows

This print has a refined

one of the key figures of German Expressionism

the 100-plate series Haeckel published between 1899 and 1904

peromedusae jellyfish fine art print ernst haeckel Size:70×100 cm intellectual elegance to a studyThe coronate jellyfish of this plate come from the deeper, darker reaches of the ocean, and Haeckel drew them with a fittingly dramatic touch. Their crowned, grooved bells sit above short, sturdy tentacles, arranged in warm browns, reds and ambers against a shadowy background so that they seem to hang suspended in the deep. There is a richness and weight to these medusae that sets them apart from his paler jellyfish studies. The illustration is part