Fritz Kahn

Khan was born in 1888 and died in 1986, he was a Doctor in Berlin and he was also a world famous popular science writer whom illustrated the form and functions of the human body with spectacular modern man-machine analogies. Khan specialised in illustrating the physical processes of human bodies as though they were machine powered.

The work Khan produced - including his books were not liked by people, they probably seemed offencive to a certain extent, people didn't like the content of them. "In the 1930s, his books were banned and burned by the Nazis, then edited by Kahn’s publisher and reissued as plagiarisms with a superimposed anti-Semitic chapter". http://www.fritz-kahn.com/person.php?site=&lang=en

When Khan lived in Germany he was silenced due to the fact that his work wasn't liked, however today there is a big interest in his work ranging from historians to designers - today people across the world are inspired by Khan's images, therefore the work he produced all them years ago that was strongly dis-liked and banned, has had a big impact of the people of present day.

 

"Fritz Kahn's books and illustrations explored the inner machinery of the human body, using metaphors of modern industrial life. Kahn turned the brain into a complex factory with light projectors, conveyor belts, secretaries and cinema screens; he showed the journeys of blood cells as locomotives encircling the globe; and he compared bones to modern building materials such as reinforced concrete".
http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/bodies/kahn/kahnmachines.html