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Jugend [German art magazine] (page 3/4)

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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.

[picture: The Lost City Under the Sea]

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...] [$]

[picture: castle medallion with ribbons]

castle medallion with ribbons

A locket, a vignette, a medallion, a small almost heart-shaped shape with a drawing of a round castle turret, or perhaps a bell tower judging by the louvres in the window, and a square keep, with a round turret at the nearest [...] [more...] [$]

[picture: Lady Justice (Justitia)]

Lady Justice (Justitia)

The woman representing Justice here is blindfolded (as usual in art) representing impartiality. She rides a lion to symbolise power and authority. [more...] [$]

[picture: Family with barefoot boy]

Family with barefoot boy

A sketch, almost a cartoon. A lady with a hat and long dress. A man wearing a bow tie and tweed sporting jacket. A boy, barefoot, perhaps a beggar or street boy, holds a beer stein (a half-litre mug, or Krügerl) up to his mouth to drink. It is the beer one of the adults has left in the mug. [more...] [$]

[picture: Barefoot boy guzzles beer]

Barefoot boy guzzles beer

This shoeless boy is taken from a cartoon, Family with barefoot boy. What is he drinking? [more...] [$]

[picture: Enjoyment of Life]

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...] [$]

[picture: Kullervo as a Boy]

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...] [$]

[picture: Art Nouveau Bookplate]

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...] [$]

[picture: Bookplate without name]

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...] [$]

[picture: Le Baiser (The Kiss)]

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...] [$]

[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: Back cover]

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...] [$]


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