Dream Anatomy: Gallery: Fritz Kahn: Man as Industrial Palace, 1926
November 19th, 2007
Dream Anatomy: Gallery: Fritz Kahn: Man as Industrial Palace
Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)
Stuttgart, 1926. Chromolithograph. National Library of Medicine.
Fritz Kahn (1888-1968)
Kahn’s
modernist visualization of the digestive and respiratory system
as “industrial palace,” really a chemical plant, was conceived
in a period when the German chemical industry was the world’s
most advanced.
high resolution here
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