Haeckel’s Alalus: on the decolonization of the…
Haeckel’s imagined Pithecanthropus Alalus is a conception of an “ape-man without speech”. In other words, Haeckel’s Alalus is a conception of a proto-human or a being-not-yet-men, and its lack of...
Ernst Haeckel
German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist
Ernst Haeckel met schedel en apenskelet - Haeckel posing for an unknown photographer around 1904
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, stem cell, and the kingdom Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularized Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the controversial recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarizes its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny. (from Wikipedia)
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Worked together with scientific illustrators:
Eduard Giltsch, Adolf Glitsch, Wilhelm Wagenschieber among others.
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Stage: Haeckel Erfgoed
Wil jij ons helpen om voor het digitaal en analoge erfgoed van Ernst Haeckel te zorgen en zijn missie voort zetten? Ernst Haeckel is een inspiratiebron voor ons. Meer dan een eeuw geleden scoorde hij...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Gökçe Baykan
Haeckel Hunt
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Onzichtbare Collectie: Discomedusae, Ernst…
Hier word Dicomedusa van Ernst Haeckle beschreven door Willem Velthoven.
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Artforms in Digital Translation
Anastasia and Chandni working hard to translate the beauty of Haeckel's lithographic illustrations In order to make the extraordinary Kunstformen der Natur exhibition happen in September, our...
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Picturing nature with a 100-year gap
Desmonema Annasethe discovered by Ernst Haeckel and the likes of it in modern maritime photography
Afbeeldingen: Bekijk alle pagina's 185
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Afbeelding: Mediamatic Biotoop Sadhbh O'Donnell
Collaborating with Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Glitsch
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Afbeelding: Busan, South Korea
Haeckel Posters in Museum of Contemporary Art
Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art Busan. Photograph by Studio Jeongbiso. © 2021 Museum of Contemporary Art Busan.
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Afbeelding: Busan, South Korea
Haeckel Posters in Museum of Contemporary Art
Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art Busan. Photograph by Studio Jeongbiso. © 2021 Museum of Contemporary Art Busan.
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Afbeelding: Adolf Giltsch, Ernst Haeckel
Ophiothrix. / Ophiodea. – Schlangensterne. – fig.
From Kunstformen der Natur
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch This is a figure on plate 10 , one of the 100 pop science biology illustrations that were published from 1899 – 1904 in Leipzig by Ernst Haeckel through...
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Afbeelding: Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Astrosphaera. / Spumellaria. – Schaumstrahlinge.
From Kunstformen der Natur
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch This is a figure on plate 91 , one of the 100 pop science biology illustrations that were published from 1899 – 1904 in Leipzig by Ernst Haeckel through...
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Afbeelding: Ernst Haeckel, Adolf Giltsch
Dorataspis / Acanthophracta. – Wunderstrahlinge –…
From Kunstformen der Natur
Lithograph by Ernst Haeckel and Adolf Giltsch This is a figure of plate 41 , one of the 100 pop science biology illustrations that were published from 1899 – 1904 in Leipzig by Ernst Haeckel through...