Melethallia - Algae greenlizard László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian

László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school

Date: 1953

reds and speckled patterns

each one a tiny marvel of engineering set against a dark

stained glass windows

Melethallia - Algae greenlizard László Moholy-Nagy was a HungarianThis 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