muscinae polytrichum fine art print ernst haeckel vintage butterfly and printmaker associated with the

and printmaker associated with the Vienna Secession and the Art Nouveau style

Creator: Jaques Fabien Gautier D’Agoty

stairwells and bedrooms

Haeckel's influential series of 100 lithographs

non-reflective finish

muscinae polytrichum fine art print ernst haeckel vintage butterfly and printmaker associated with theLook 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