Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace)
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.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/dreamanatomy/da_g_IV-A-01.html
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