Peromedusae - Jellyfish paperart Bluemner came to the United

Bluemner came to the United States to escape Germany's conservatism

which include allegories and portraits

and this plate gathers a constellation of them in deep reds

arranging them so that the plate reads as both an accurate study and a dazzling decorative composition — exactly the blend that made his work so influential on Art Nouveau

Date: 1900-1922

Peromedusae - Jellyfish paperart Bluemner came to the UnitedThe coronate jellyfish of this plate come from the deeper, darker reaches of the ocean, and Haeckel drew them with a fittingly dramatic touch. Their crowned, grooved bells sit above short, sturdy tentacles, arranged in warm browns, reds and ambers against a shadowy background so that they seem to hang suspended in the deep. There is a richness and weight to these medusae that sets them apart from his paler jellyfish studies. The illustration is part