Man as Industrial Palace: Watch an Animation of the Well-known 1926 Lithograph That Depicts the Human Physique as a Trendy Manufacturing facility

In 1926, Fritz Kahn, a Ger­man gyne­col­o­gist and anato­my textual content­ebook writer, professional­duced a lith­o­graph known as Der Males­sch als Indus­triepalast (Man as Indus­tri­al Palace) that depict­ed the human physique as a fac­to­ry, a chem­i­cal plant of kinds. Kah­n’s physique got here com­plete with mechan­i­cal lungs, a rock-sort­ing stom­ach, gears for a throat, and a swap­board for a mind, and it illus­trat­ed slightly metaphor­i­cal­ly the diploma to which indus­tri­al­iza­tion had tak­en over West­ern life, cre­at­ing deep anx­i­ety for some and curios­i­ty for oth­ers.

Greater than 80 years lat­er, Hen­ning Led­er­er, a Ger­man artist, introduced Kah­n’s mechan­i­cal physique to life with some reward­ed ani­ma­tion. To study extra about Led­er­er’s undertaking, it would be best to spend extra time on IndustriePalast.com and par­tic­u­lar­ly with this assist­ful PDF. Oth­er ani­ma­tions by Led­er­er will be discovered on Vimeo.

An ear­li­er ver­sion of this put up orig­i­nal­ly appeared on our website in 2011.

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