Expedition III: Into the World of Ernst Haeckel

Step into the mind of a man who saw nature not just as science, but as art.
In the early 1900s, German naturalist Ernst Haeckel published Kunstformen der Natur - a book unlike any other. Within its pages, corals unfolded like gothic cathedrals, radiolarians shimmered like stained glass, and jellyfish danced like cosmic lanterns.

This was more than documentation. Haeckel believed that every organism carried an inherent beauty, a symmetry that connected science to aesthetics, biology to design. His illustrations were meticulous, almost mathematical, yet they pulsed with imagination and wonder.

Our expedition into Kunstformen der Natur invites you to rediscover these visions. Each print is both specimen and sculpture, an echo of the moment when science dared to dream in patterns, colors, and forms that still feel modern more than a century later.

Here, the boundary between reality and fantasy dissolves.
Are you studying a medusa or a chandelier? A shell or an abstract sculpture? The answer, Haeckel whispers, is both.

Treasure found in: Kunstformen der Natur, 1904.
Expedition theme: Where science becomes art.

Find the images here.