Max Brödel: The Father of Medical Illustration

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Award-winning medical and scientific illustrator Mark M. Miller dives into the life, times, talents and influence of an unquestionable artistic genius, Max Brödel.

Beginning with Brödel's birth in Leipzig, Germany in 1870, and culminating with his death in 1941, this is a story of a man who brought medical illustration into the modern area, codified it’s techniques and principles, and began the first training program for medical illustrators in the world at Johns Hopkins University. 

The Speaker:

Mark M. Miller has been a medical illustrator for 38 years. He is a graduate of Art as Applied to Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the program started by the subject of his talk, Max Brödel. Following five years as a staff illustrator and facial prosthetist in Art as Applied to Medicine, Mark launched Miller Medical Illustration in Kansas City, a sole-proprietorship.

Mark recently completed 12 years as Scientific Illustrator at the Stowers Institute, and now is again devoted to the full-time operation of Miller Medical Illustration, where he continues to create illustrations for a diverse group of national and international clients, depicting a wide range of medical, biological, scientific and veterinary subjects.