MONOCULTURE – Das Wunder des Lebens
© image: MHKA
Der glaeserne Mensch, 1935
Der gläserne Mensch, 1935
Postcard from the exhibition Das Wunder des Lebens
Collection M HKA, Antwerp
This postcard shows The Transparent Man also known as 'Der Träger des Lebens' (‘The Bearer of Life’), which was the main attraction of the lavishly designed Das Wunder des Lebens – a propaganda exhibition that took place in Berlin in 1935. The main idea of the exhibition was purely eugenicist – on both the protection of the physical body from diseases through the latest achievements of modern hygiene, and the maintenance of the so-called 'body' of German folk with the help of 'racial hygiene'. Within a few years, The Transparent Man became the symbol of German-specific understanding of man and health. It also served as a centrepiece to the traveling version of The Miracle of Life exhibition presented in Antwerp in 1936.