Items in Germany (results page 1)

Frontispiece: Burkard Keller of Yburg.Legends of the Black Forest (1890)

A ghostly woman glowing white floats in the air, her bare feet not touching the ground, as she reaches out to a knight, kneeling in awestruck adoration. In the background a statue of the same woman at [...]

Keywords: people, ghosts, spirit, spooky, owls, forests, knights, colour

Places shown: Baden; Germany

Added: 2009-03-24

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I.—Detail of Façade of the Old Museum, Berlin, with sculpture group.Monumental Architecture (1910)

I.—Old Museum, Berlin: Detail of Façade, with Sculpture Group “The Amazon.” Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Architect. Kiss, Sculptor. These steps sre indeed of monumental proportions! The naked woman in th [...]

Keywords: sculpture, statues, entrances, columns, animals, lions, people, bare feet, nudity, weapons, neoclassical, architecture, greyscale

Places shown: BerlinBerlin; Germany

Added: 2005-08-17

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II.—Old Museum, Berlin, Lion Slayer.Monumental Architecture (1910)

The statue in this photograph is called Löwenkämpfer, or lion fighter. It was made by Albert Wolff in 1858 and is outside the Altes Museum.

Keywords: statues, architecture, buildings, spears, weapons, nudity, are feet, people, men, animals, lions, horses, victory, battles, greyscale

Places shown: BerlinBerlin; Germany

Added: 2020-08-22

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Homecoming, by Robert EngelsJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

A poem about a man coming home after a long journey; he is a medieval knight, and sits on a wall holding his lance and helmet, overlooking the town and castle. In th epoem he now has grey hair, b [...]

Keywords: poetry, poems, knights, people, warriors, castles, men, armour, medieval architecture, medieval scenes, greyscale

Places shown: Germany

Added: 2021-08-06

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The Pied Piper of HamelinDoings of the Bodley Family in Town and Country (1876)

The pied piper of Hamelin (or Hameln in German) doesn’t look very pied; that is, his cloak isn’t made from two colours. In the story, the piper is called to rid the town of rats, which he does by char [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, people, fairy tales, music, children, men, medieval, greyscale

Places shown: Hamelin; Lower Saxony; Germany

Added: 2012-02-22

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Schloß Prunn im AltmühltaleDas Buch für Alle [the book for everyone] (1890)

Prunn Castle in Bavaria, from an original by F[ritz] Dietrich.

Keywords: castles, hills, mountains, towers, greyscale

Places shown: Prunn; Aktmühltal; Bavaria; Germany

Added: 2011-06-03

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The Abandoned Water-MillIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

The drawing shows an old abandoned watermill, the wooden walls rotting away, the thatched roof uneven, the waterwheel still and rotten, the whole building overgrown. Romantic poems about deserted mill [...]

Keywords: mills, romantic ruins, trees, water wheels, buildings, exteriors, decay, ruins, drawings, greyscale

Places shown: Germany

Added: 2018-02-04

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The Mummelsee.Legends of the Black Forest (1890)

A group of water-nymphs bathe in the lake, with the stern figure of the ruler of the lake in the background. At the southern end of the mountain-range which ascends from the Kniebis to the Hornisgründ [...]

Keywords: people, nudity, bare feet, mountains, water, beards, colour

Places shown: Baden; Germany

Added: 2009-03-24

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Our Princess Royal: The Empress-Dowager Victoria of GermanyHome Words for Heart and Hearth (1888)

“OUR PRINCESS ROYAL:” The Empress-Dowager Victoria of Germany. From s sketch made by the late E. M. Ward, R.A., at the time of her Marriage. The tragic reign of the Emperor Frederick, so brief and s [...]

Keywords: portraits, royalty, queens, people, women, tiaras, hair, sketches, faces, greyscale

Places shown: Germany

Added: 2021-04-17

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Lady of Castle WindeckRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

“Messrs. D. Appleton, of New York, requested us to provide a set of illustrations to the Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant. They wished for a large number by Birket Foster, who at that time was [...]

Keywords: poetry, knights, people, greyscale

Places shown: Windeck; Baden-Württemberg; Germany

Added: 2006-04-26

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Rudolph von Habsburg.Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)

This engraving by Schultheiss is based on an oil painting by Moitz von Schwind, and depicts a scene about Rudolf von Habsburg (1218 – 1291), King of Germany. The story is that Rudolf, when he was stil [...]

Keywords: kings, royalty, servants, bare feet, forests, woods, trees, nighttime, priests, sacrament, the host, christianity, piety, bowing, kneeling, tobes, costumes, horses, people, knights, soldiers, greyscale

Places shown: Germany

Added: 2021-04-01

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On the Lower RhineJugend [German art magazine] (1903)

On the top a chimney of a mediæval house or castle, with its steep tiled roof, suttered windows, rain gutters, and a dome, we see a large bird’s nest, a stork’s breeding-place, with one stork standing [...]

Keywords: birds, storks, castles, roofs, roofs, views, domes, windows, rivers, water, colour

Places shown: Lower Rhine; Germany

Added: 2018-12-04

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ExecutionJugend [German art magazine] (1903)

This rather dramatic picture showd person about to be hung by an angry mob until they are dead. People are tugging on the rpe to raise the victim; they wear workers’ clothing and some of them are [...]

Keywords: death, murder, lynching, hanging, execution, people, men, hatred, injustice, bare feet, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: Germany

Added: 2021-05-30

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German Coaching InnModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band VII (1893)

The illustration is from an article entitled Our German Weapons Students (Unsere deutschen Waffen-Studenten) and is entitled The Coming of the Sausages (Der Landjäger kommt), by A. Blunck, which i tak [...]

Keywords: inns, buildings, carts, carriages, roads, street scenes, people, gossip, rumours, half-timbered buildings, tudor architecture, colour

Places shown: Germany

Added: 2022-07-02

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A Woman torn in pieces by the Devil. pa. 14.Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

The “pa. 14.” refers to page 14, which has the following text: XVII. At Oster, a Village in Germany, there happened a most strange and fearful judgement upon a Woman who gave her self to the Devil, bo [...]

Keywords: religion, people, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Oster; Mosel; Germany

Added: 2006-07-28

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