Fritz Kahn. Man Maschine

With extraordinary textual and visual metaphors, Dr. Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) succeeded in making complex principles in nature and technology understandable to a general readership. He described humans as the "highest performance machines in the world," and his illustrations reflected the technical and cultural development of the Weimar Republic. In the 1920s the doctor and natural scientist from Berlin became an internationally bestselling author after the publication of his book series The Life of Man. Persecuted by the Nazis, the Jewish intellectual immigrated to the USA with the help of Albert Einstein and continued to write successfully. With over 200 illustrations, this monograph offers readers the first overview of the life and work of Fritz Kahn. The focus lies on his visual language, a pioneering example of modern information design, which to this day continues to fascinate with its variety of themes and styles, humor and original analogies.