February 7th, 2012
ryanpanos

Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace) via Dream Anatomy

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.

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