filicinae fern fine art print ernst haeckel plant Place de la Concorde (1938–1943)

Place de la Concorde (1938–1943)

Date: 1939

The distinctive mustache and beard identify the Calavera as Francisco Madero (initiator of the Mexican Revolution and President of Mexico 1911 - 1913)

Ernst Haeckel balanced scientific accuracy with real visual energy

each one a tiny marvel of engineering set against a dark

filicinae fern fine art print ernst haeckel plant Place de la Concorde (1938–1943)There is something endlessly satisfying about the spiral of an unfurling fern, and this Haeckel plate celebrates it in lush, layered greens. Fronds arc and curl across the sheet, the tightly coiled fiddleheads set against fully opened leaves so that the whole life of the plant seems to play out in a single image. Ernst Haeckel arranged it with the symmetry and density that make his botanical studies so satisfying to look at. The print is part of