Ernst Haeckel

An article titled Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora & Fauna: The Beautiful Scientific Drawings That Influenced Europe’s Art Nouveau Movement (1889) on openculture.com led me on a bit of a search for more of this amazing work. I love these intricate images full of vibrance and detail – just stunning!

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919^, was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist. He discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms and coined many terms in biology…

cited from wikipedia, 22/09/2025

And then I found this wonderful little site: haeckel.tilda.ws/en (by Lena Svintsova)— I’m adding a screencast here just to preserve the site for posterity ツ Just in case it ever gets lost or taken down.

Thank you to Lena for giving me permission to post the screencast ツ