Beautiful old German zoological wall charts

October 3, 2006 8:27 PM

Beautiful, occasionally abstract, old German zoological wall charts. [via]
posted by mediareport (17 comments total)

I really love this, but there are so many good ones.
posted by mediareport at 8:36 PM on October 3, 2006

"It puts the lotion in the basket..."
These are awesome, thanks.
posted by peeedro at 8:42 PM on October 3, 2006

good stuff. i love shit like this.
posted by brandz at 8:44 PM on October 3, 2006

Oh, these are gorgeous. I love the pallette, and the general stripped-down Art Deco proto-Riefenstahl-ness.
posted by vetiver at 8:58 PM on October 3, 2006

I am just thrilled, believe me.
posted by redsparkler at 9:25 PM on October 3, 2006

Wait...but they're all so small.
posted by redsparkler at 9:26 PM on October 3, 2006

Insufficient resolution.

but otherwise...

Das macht mir spass!
posted by phrontist at 9:30 PM on October 3, 2006

Awesome, thanks.
posted by salvia at 9:41 PM on October 3, 2006

so pretty... me want at 300dpi...
posted by ab3 at 9:54 PM on October 3, 2006

First the Soviet art from last week, now this? Jeeze, has MeFi turned into some sort of post-cold war art exhibit?

I jest. This is really neat.

But perhaps a biologist in the house can explain the abstract link in the FPP. I've been trying to parse it, but I'm coming up short.

Based on the shapes, I'm assuming it's something cellular, but I'll be honest, I haven't a clue.
posted by quin at 10:25 PM on October 3, 2006

It's from this page, quin, and there's an accompanying scheme just to the right. Looks like a diagram of the ways proteins, lipid, water and tri-glycerides can interact.
posted by mediareport at 10:36 PM on October 3, 2006

mein gott! dieses ist gut!
posted by 3.2.3 at 10:37 PM on October 3, 2006

Phenomenal stuff. These remind me a bit of Ernst Haeckel's incredible Kunstformen der Natur (wikipedia).
posted by distant figures at 12:36 AM on October 4, 2006

Oops, Haeckel's made the blue before (and linked in a previous FPP by none other than mediareport): here, and here. Apologies for the redundancy.
posted by distant figures at 12:47 AM on October 4, 2006

Ugh, that would be here, and here.
posted by distant figures at 12:52 AM on October 4, 2006

Dutch botanical wall charts 1870-1960. Hit browse. Perhaps not 300dpi but there are a mass of them and they are quite large (hit 'Extra groot' for largest size).
posted by peacay at 3:10 AM on October 4, 2006

Awesome stuff, MR.
posted by klangklangston at 7:05 AM on October 4, 2006