50 x 118,5cm Edition of 20+2AP
Photo collage from parts of two Anatomical wall charts (89 x 62 cm) by Dr. A. Fiedler. Lithograph, printed and published by C.C. Meinhold & Söhne in Dresden. Fourth edition, circa 1890. Illustrated by M. Krantz and F. Födisch. The first edition appeared in 1868 at the instigation of the Royal Saxon Ministry of Culture and Public Education. Especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries, a reorganization of the way we view and understand human beings took place. This was accompanied by increased control over the human body, the initiation of standardization processes, and the enshrinement of the difference between health and illness.
The human body became "empirical material" and a "space of knowledge," and this transformation process simultaneously provided an essential foundation for the incorporation of human knowledge as a teaching and learning subject in the school system.
In particular, the early anatomical charts from the second half of the 19th century served to understand the human body, its organs and their functions.
Thanks for the graphic work to Peter Bittermann
