Ernst Haeckel is a big inspiration to us. He was an evolutionary biologist ("the German Darwin") that was a gifted draughtsman and painter as well. However talented, he realised that the visualisation of his discoveries needed a professional artist. So all his life he worked together with Adolf Giltsch, a Leipzig based lithographer who made the scientific illustrations for Haeckels publications.
At the end of the 19th century, they published a pop-science digest of their work: Kunstformen der Natur. Kunstformen is a collection of 100 magnificent lithographs with the best of their work.
The book was a great commercial success and inspired many artists from then till the current day.
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Step into the footsteps of Ernst Haeckel und explore your inner scientist
Ernst Haeckel, as an biologist and artist in the 19th century, discovered many new species during his exploration tours around the world. You can now step into Ernst Haeckel's footsteps as a curious explorer of nature, plants and animals, and participate in our treasure hunt.
Haeckel's new…
Ernst Haeckel is an inspiration to us. In the past, Mediamatic already expressed the admiration with programs around Haeckel as an evolutionary biologist as well as gifted draughtsman and painter. You can read about him here . The visualisations around Haeckel’s work connect scientific research…
As some of you might have already noticed, reaching our location became a bit of an adventure due to construction works near Oosterdok. Yet, we are not isolated on our island, but there are still several ways to reach us, see here . In addition, the collaboration with neighbouring institutions…
The Kunstformen der Natur exhibition returned at the end of 2015 in collaboration with Radboud University Hospital in Nijmegen. After the popular exhibition of all 100 prints at Mediamatic last year, we have selected 80 of them for the exciting location in the east of The Netherlands. We blew them…
