Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace) Stuttgart, 1926. Chromolithograph. by 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.
Der Mensch als Industriepalast” (Man as Industrial Palace) by Fritz Kahn (1888 –1968). Kahn’s modernist visualisation of the digestive and respiratory system as an “industrial palace” was conceived in a period when the German chemical industry was the world’s most advanced (picture: akg-images/Walter Ballhause)