by thenewgreen

"Complex analogies like “Man as Industrial Palace” reflect Kahn’s hands-on knowledge of the human body. Throughout much of the 1910s and ’20s, Kahn led what he once described as “a double life”: hospital doctor by day, writer for a German science book club called Kosmos in his off hours."

"Man As Industrial Palace." Fritz Kahn poster, supplement to Das Leben des Menschen III, Franckh/Kosmos, Stuttgart 1926, Fritz Schüler, © Kosmos. Image appears in Fritz Kahn (TASCHEN, 2013).