Muscinae - Polytrichum Size:70×100 cm Date: 1911-1917

Date: 1911-1917

He also worked as a musician

From 1850 to 1860 he taught mathematics in a private school while writing articles for the Liberal press criticizing the Second French Empire

and became a pupil of the painter and engraver Jacob Christoph Le Blon

particularly his self-portraits

Muscinae - Polytrichum Size:70×100 cm Date: 1911-1917Look closely at a patch of moss and a whole forest in miniature appears which is exactly what Ernst Haeckel captured in this plate of Polytrichum, the tall "haircap" mosses. Slender stalks topped with delicate capsules rise across the sheet in fresh, layered greens, the tiny structures magnified and arranged so that something usually crushed underfoot becomes elegant and architectural. The illustration is part of Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in