leptomedusae jellyfish fine art print ernst haeckel bathing and the antics of puppetry

and the antics of puppetry (Ranson kept a puppet theater in his studio)

he captured the jellyfish with scientific accuracy while composing the page like a designer

Striking vintage cephalopod art for a wall with personality

Title: Seebad Grado

1896 saw him moving to Munich where he worked as an illustrator for the Meggendorfer-Blätter and others

leptomedusae jellyfish fine art print ernst haeckel bathing and the antics of puppetrySmaller and more intricate than Haeckel's famous disc jellyfish, the leptomedusae in this plate are tiny hydrozoan bells, drawn with a jeweller's attention to detail. Their fine radial canals, fringed margins and threadlike tentacles are arranged in a balanced, almost kaleidoscopic composition, set against a deep background so that each pale bell seems to float and glow. The illustration comes from Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Ernst