melethallia algae fine art print ernst haeckel watercolor painting In 1930 he embarked on

In 1930 he embarked on a trip to the Gold Coast and Nigeria to study patterns on clothing fabrics

Moser designed a wide array of art works

and plates like this one show exactly why designers of the Art Nouveau era looked to his work for inspiration

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their flowing forms echoed in lamps

melethallia algae fine art print ernst haeckel watercolor painting In 1930 he embarked onThis plate turns the humblest of organisms colonial algae into a study of pure, repeating pattern. Ernst Haeckel arranged these microscopic plant forms into rosettes, networks and clusters of soft green and gold, the kind of natural geometry that feels almost like wallpaper or textile design rather than a page from a science book. It is one of the 100 lithographs in Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Haeckel's hugely influential series. A