muscinae polytrichum fine art print ernst haeckel Size:50×70 cm He was a prominent designer

He was a prominent designer of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement

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a composition that is as biologically astonishing as it is beautiful

muscinae polytrichum fine art print ernst haeckel Size:50×70 cm He was a prominent designerLook closely at a patch of moss and a whole forest in miniature appears which is exactly what Ernst Haeckel captured in this plate of Polytrichum, the tall "haircap" mosses. Slender stalks topped with delicate capsules rise across the sheet in fresh, layered greens, the tiny structures magnified and arranged so that something usually crushed underfoot becomes elegant and architectural. The illustration is part of Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in