Poster for the First International Hygiene Exhibition, Dresden
Franz von Stuck, 1911 (reproduction)
As the exhibition's leading sponsor, Lingner
commissioned the exhibition poster from the Munich painter Franz
von Stuck after dreaming about a huge eye looking down from the
heavens. The idea of an all-seeing eye that watches over and sees
through the human body seemed an appropriate symbol for 'hygiene'
at a time when microscopes and X-rays were revealing new secrets
about the body.