Art Forms in Nature
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Art Forms in Nature Born in 1834 in Potsdam, at that time Prussia, Ernst Haeckel initially trained as a physician, but his interests lay elsewhere, notably in shapes and patterns in Nature and their evolution. Art Forms in Nature was published as a series of 100 lithographs at the turn of the 1800s. These images are as powerful today as when they must have been when they astounded the public at the time of their first publication. Artists continue to draw upon these images to create jewellery, textiles and ceramics; also architects: Binet, and possibly Gaudi, have used them as inspirations for architectural design.