Max Brödel

Max Brödel (June 8, 1870 – October 26, 1941) was a medical illustrator. He was born in Germany, but eventually immigrated to the United States. In the late 1890s, he was brought to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore to illustrate for Harvey Cushing, William Halsted, Howard Kelly, and other notable clinicians. In addition to being an extraordinary artist, he created new techniques, such as carbon dust, that were especially suitable to his subject matter and then-current printing technologies. In 1911 he presided over the creation of the first academic department of medical illustration; located at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, it continues to train medical illustrators to this day. His graduates spread out across the world, and founded a number of other academic programs.

References

• Schultheiss D, Jonas U (1999). "Max Brödel (1870–1941) and Howard A. Kelly (1858–1943)--urogynecology and the birth of modern medical illustration". Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 86 (1): 113–5. doi:10.1016/S0301-2115(99)00028-7. PMID 10471153. 
• Schultheiss D, Engel R, Crosby R, Lees G, Truss M, Jonas U (2000). "Max Brödel (1870–1941) and medical illustration in urology". J Urol. 164 (4): 1137–42. doi:10.1016/S0022-5347(05)67128-5. PMID 10992353. 

Further reading

• Ranice W. Crosby; John Cody (1991). Max Brödel: The Man Who Put Art Into Medicine. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-387-97563-2. 

External links

• Works by or about Max Brödel at Internet Archive
• Max Brodel (1870–1941): His artistic influence on surgical learning at Johns Hopkins medical school