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.
![[picture: Front Cover]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/tn/000-front-cover-q75-408x500.jpg "[picture: 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: Jugend Endpaper]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/tn/000-c-endpaper-q75-386x500.jpg "[picture: Jugend Endpaper]")
The end-papers of this bound collection of German art magazines from 1900 is a surreal natural scene with fruit, nuts, berries, pine cones, flowers and I think snow, by an unknown artist. [more...]
![[picture: Back cover]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/tn/000-back-cover-q75-383x500.jpg "[picture: Back cover]")
The back cover of this bound collection of Jugend magazine for 1900 shoes a bearded man resting his arms on a large closed book. Perhaps it’s Jugend and he just finished reading it. The red garland [...] [more...]
![[picture: Festoon or Garland of Roses]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/tn/000-back-cover-detail-festoon-q93-500x209.jpg "[picture: Festoon or Garland of Roses]")
This is a detail from the back cover of the bound collection of magazines for the year 1900. The image is of a string of red roses helpd up into a festoon or banner by tapes or ribbons, making a sort of full-width top border. [more...]
![[picture: Jugend Magazine, January 1900, Front Cover]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/tn/02-025-front-cover-q75-379x500.jpg "[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: Nude Woman with Flowers]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/tn/04-068-nude-woman-with-flowers-q85-159x500.jpg "[picture: Nude Woman with Flowers]")
A naked woman, seen in profile, stretches up to a giant orchid.
![[picture: Panik! Panik!]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/tn/08-128-panik-q85-500x313.jpg "[picture: Panik! Panik!]")
Everyone in the dance hall runs screaming, fleeing for their lives, when the medusa demon appears! [more...]
![[picture: Panik! Detail: Medusa]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/tn/08-128-panik-detail-medusa-q93-480x500.jpg "[picture: Panik! Detail: Medusa]")
Medusa has snakes for hair and don’t look, Medusa’s gaze will turn you to stone! [more...]
