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

The Lost City Under the Sea

A naked bearded man sits on the spire of a cathedral in an underwater city and gazes upon the town; large fish and a jellyfish swim past. He is crowned with coral. [more...] [$]

Enjoyment of Life

This view of a verdant green meadow with a tree and a stream, a blue sky, and a scantily-clad and mostly topless woman enjoying the sheer exuberance of Spring, [...]Friedrich Hölderlins. [more...] [$]

Kullervo as a Boy

Kullervo is a character from the Finnish epic poem, the Kalevala. Here he is shown as a naked boy, fair-haired and strong, in a forest, drawing pictures on the trunk of an oak tree; there are cows in [...] [more...] [$]

Art Nouveau Bookplate

This design for a bookplate was used as a column filler in the magazine, with no explanation. It shows a seated princess, her posture very regal, holding a bowl from which another woman is drinking. The words EX LIBRIS appear on an arch behind them. giant irises bloom suggestively, and some letters are partly visible, perhaps from the Latin [...] [more...] [$]

Bookplate without name

Perhpas i should have left a blank rectangle for you to write your name in this bookplate, but you could do it underneath. [more...] [$]

Le Baiser (The Kiss)

In this orange and black duotone print, a man wispers into the ear of a slghtly younger woman, or maybe kisses her ear or even nibbles on it a bit, as one does. A poem beneath it is attributed to [...] [more...] [$]

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...] [$]

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...] [$]

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...] [$]