Plants As Inventors English Translation

Plants As Inventors English Translation

Author: Team Occulted via Francé, R. H.

Year: 1920

Plants as inventors by Francé, R. H. (Raoul Heinrich), 1874-1943. n 87148033 Publication date 1923 Die Pflanze als Erfinder by Francé, R. H. (Raoul Heinrich), 1874-1943 The project aims to study the influence of the writings of the Hungarian neo-lamarkian botanist Raoul Heinrich Francé (1874-1943) on the activity of the Russian artist El Lissitzky between 1922 and 1925. Starting point of the research is a comparison between Francé's books Die Pflanze als Erfinder (Stuttgart 1920) and Bios: Die Gesetze der Welt (Stuttgart, 1923) with the special issue of the Modernist magazine «Merz» entitled Nasci, edited by Lissitzky in collaboration with Kurt Schwitters in April 1924. The apparent distinction between the concepts of biology and engineering presented a challenge by 1920's through the concept of "Biocentrism": as Oliver I. Botar points out, many artists and architects referred to the word Biozentrik, a German term for the early twentieth-century worldview based on trends such as Biologism, Vitalism, Organicism, Holism and Lebensphilosophie. The hungarian-born botanist Raoul Francé was the Director of the Munich Biological Institute and the editor of «Aufbau der Entwicklungslehre»,