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Jugend [German art magazine] (page 1/4)

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[picture: Front Cover]

Some pictures from the German art magazine Jugend. I was given (very kindly) two collected volumes and I am slowly scanning the images that are out of copyright (as I read German copyright law).

Jugend (Youth) Magazine was very influential in Germany, and gave rise to Jugendstile, the German name for Art Nouveau.

Title: Jugend [German art magazine]

Author: Various

City: Munich

Date: 1900

Total items: 24

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

Some sample images

[picture: Venus danced for Apollo]

Venus danced for Apollo

Apollo schlug die Cither, und Venus bezauberte alles, indem sie dazu einen Tanz aufführte” aus Max Klinger “Amor und Psyche.”

Apollo played the zither and Venus enchanted everyone by performing a dance to it” from Max Klinger’s “Amor and Psyche.”

Framed by two giant pillars strewn with garlands, we see the goddess Venus dancing in a circle; on a daised patform behind her we see Apollo, King of [more...] [$]

[picture: A tiny woodland fairy with wings]

A tiny woodland fairy with wings

This small fey woodcut (around two inches, or 50mm, tall) shows a naked winged beaded man in a tree, or perhaps in some tiny patch of mushrooms. [more...] [$]

[picture: Jugend Magazine, January 1900, Front Cover]

Jugend Magazine, January 1900, Front Cover

The front cover from Jugend Magazine from Issue Two, January 1900. It features a blindfolded woman barefoot, resting one foot on a wheel, holding a cornucopia from which roses are falling. She reaches out and moves the minute hand of a clock forward past XII. There are wings at her hand. The clock-face bears the signs of the zodiac and rays of light [...] [more...] [$]

[picture: Front Cover]

Front Cover

The front cover of Jugend from 1900 is a sort of German Industrial design that forshadows the next thirty or more years. A gianr Janu, or two-faced statue, draped with garlands, is inscribed with [...] [more...] [$]

[picture: Homecoming, by Robert Engels]

Homecoming, by Robert Engels

A poem about a man coming home after a long journey; he is a medieval knight, and sits on a wall holding his lance and helmet, overlooking the town and castle. In th epoem he now has [...] [more...] [$]


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