Fritz Kahn--(1888-1968).Индустриальная анатомия.

[marinni]

Fritz Kahn-(1888-1968)

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Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)
Stuttgart, 1926. Chromolithograph. National Library of Medicine.

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.




Das Leben des Menschen... (The Life of Man). Vol. 5
Stuttgart, 1931.
The physiology of vision, with the rods and cones of the pupils as receptors of light, is compared to the technology of photographic reproduction in which an image is screened and broken down into dot patterns.


This manipulated photo shows the effects of sunlight on the health of the body.






Das Leben des Menschen by Fritz Kahn






























Born in 1888 in Germany, the German physician Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) was between 1920 and 1950 a prolific writer and illustrator of books and articles for the general public on medicine, health and science.
His principal books, Das Leben des Menschen (The Life of Man, 1922-31) and Der Mensch: Gesund und Krank (Man: In Health and Sickness, 1939).
Influenced by Dada, neue Sachlichkeit, Sur­realism, Con­structi­v­ism, Art Deco and Neo-classicism, his complex illustrations visually explained how the human body works.

Еще много:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/dreamanatomy/da_visible_industrial.html
http://anthropomorphe.blogspot.com/search/label/medicine
http://www.fritz-kahn.com/gallery.php?site=gallery&lang=en

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Comments

[fratercula.livejournal.com]

О, спасибо! Это отличнейший человек. С насыщенной биографией. И врач, и просветитель.
Хорошо, что про него напомнили.

[marinni.livejournal.com]

И работы у него очень интересные, я удивлена даже, что никто комментариев не оставил.(

[fratercula.livejournal.com]

Ну, у Вас обычно картинки более изящные. Из других эпох.)