Kunstformen der Natur
Kunstformen der Natur is a natural history plate book by Ernst Haeckel, published in Leipzig and Vienna by the Bibliographisches Institut in 1899 for scientific and general readers. Its pages are chromolithographed or halftone plates of marine organisms, each captioned with a German and Latin name, and a designer could take their radial symmetry, lacy skeletal structure and tonal range on black or grey grounds as models for pattern and ornament.
