(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 30, 2014 German "plastinator" Gunther von Hagen poses for photographers during the opening of his special exhibition "Cuts - Forays in Anatomical Art" (Einschnitte) as part of his "Body Worlds and the Cycle of Life" exhibition in front of a transverse section of a foot in a shoe in Munich. Gunther von Hagens, the physician and inventor of plastination, has died. His family and the Institute for Plastination announced in Heidelberg on July 27, 2026 that he passed away on July 24, 2026 at the age of 81. Von Hagens was the creator of the 'Body Worlds' exhibitions, which display human anatomy using the plastinated bodies of the deceased. (Photo by SVEN HOPPE / DPA / AFP via Getty Images)