Fritz Kahn. Infographics Pioneer

Universal scholar, doctor in the Berlin of the Weimar Republic, enlightener and bestselling author – in fact, Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) did everything to secure himself lasting fame. But when he died in a sanatorium in Switzerland in 1968, he was largely forgotten, at least in Germany. Before Kahn fled from Germany from the anti-Semitic rush of the raising Nazi era, and, thanks to his intercessor Albert Einstein, finally managed to find exile in the United States, he had become a successful author of popular science books. The creative representations that illustrated his bestsellers followed the folk enlightenment plan to make biological and physical processes understandable to a wide layman audience. The book contains more than 350 of the most evocative illustrations from his books, with his original captions, three texts from Kahn’s feather, a foreword by Steven Heller, and an in-depth essay on Kahn’s uvre and meaning