melethallia algae fine art print ernst haeckel watercolor painting Moser designed a wide array

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

Ernst Haeckel drew these colonial polyps — tiny relatives of jellyfish and coral — as branching

and Leslie Nielsen

printed on thick

melethallia algae fine art print ernst haeckel watercolor painting Moser designed a wide arrayThis 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