All This Is That: Fritz Kahn's industrial palace

Tuesday, August 06, 2013

Fritz Kahn's industrial palace

Stuttgart, 1926. Chromolithograph. National Library of Medicine.

Fritz Kahn
(1888-1968)
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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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