Hexactinellae - Sponge UtagawaHiroshige and in 1937 more than

and in 1937 more than 600 of his works were sold or destroyed

Title: Wiener Werkstätte

1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator

Münchner Faschingsfest“

Ernst Haeckel's gift was to make these soft

Hexactinellae - Sponge UtagawaHiroshige and in 1937 more thanGlass sponges are nature's master glassblowers, building intricate skeletons from pure silica and this Haeckel plate shows them as the architectural wonders they are. Lattice like tubes and baskets rise across the sheet in pale ivory and gold, their delicate mesh walls drawn with a precision that makes them look almost engineered, like miniature cathedrals from the deep sea. The illustration belongs to Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature),