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Jugend [German art magazine] (page 1/2)

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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.

See also Jugend 1900.

Title: Jugend [German art magazine]

Author: Various

City: Munich

Date: 1903

Total items: 10

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: Snow White]

Snow White

Schneewitchen [Snow White, or, Little Snowdrop] [more...] [$]

[picture: Strawberry Season (Erdbeerenzeit)]

Strawberry Season (Erdbeerenzeit)

Children with an adult, perhaps their mother, carrying small baskets and filling them with strawberries they are picking in the woods. Actually they look more like flowers than berries to me, and [...] [more...] [$]

[picture: Typographic ornament with leaves and flowers]

Typographic ornament with leaves and flowers

I think it’s ment to be ivy or oak, with maybe bluebell flowers? I’m not sure. This is a typographic ornament or end-piece for finishing off a chapter. [more...] [$]

[picture: Art Nouveau Border with ivy leaves and face.]

Art Nouveau Border with ivy leaves and face.

This border in green and brown features a the head of young man with a slightly puzzled smile, ivy leaves, perhaps a halo, and stylized rectangular vines. It originally surrounded a German poem, [...] [more...] [$]

[picture: Ludwig Richter-Haus in Loschwitz]

Ludwig Richter-Haus in Loschwitz

A front door, with open wooden shutters, one having a bag hanging perhaps for mail. Windows on either side with open shutters and bars over the glass; a green bench by the door; an oval frieze containing a of the artist; a basket, perhap with grapes and a streaming festoon, or perhaps the festoon is decorative. A ladder in front of the door goes up [...] [more...] [$]


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