Kunstformen der Natur, Tafel 56 – Copepoda (1904)

Highlights

• Kunstformen der Natur (Tafel 56) BHL47388257 by Ernst Haeckel from Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature) — a faithful museum-quality reproduction of a celebrated natural-history illustration.
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Description

This meticulously detailed scientific illustration from Ernst Haeckel's landmark work 'Kunstformen der Natur' (Art Forms of Nature) depicts a stunning array of copepods — tiny crustaceans found in marine and freshwater environments — rendered with extraordinary anatomical precision and symmetrical elegance. The central figure is a dramatically splayed copepod with radiating orange-tipped appendages, surrounded by smaller specimens in vivid orange, red, green, and gold, each carefully labeled as part of Plate 56 (Tafel 56). 'Kunstformen der Natur,' published between 1899 and 1904, was a groundbreaking German portfolio of 100 lithographic plates that profoundly influenced both the scientific community and Art Nouveau artists and designers worldwide.