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Jugend [German art magazine] (page 1/3)

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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: 18

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: Kneeling at prayer by candlelight]

Kneeling at prayer by candlelight

The poem that appeared at upper left is given below, first in automatically translated English and then in my transcription of the German. [more...] [$]

[picture: Panik! Detail: Medusa]

Panik! Detail: Medusa

Medusa has snakes for hair and don’t look, Medusa’s gaze will turn you to stone! [more...] [$]

[picture: Festoon or Garland of Roses]

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]

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: Jugend Endpaper]

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...] [$]


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