Items taken from Jugend [German art magazine] (1900) (results page 1)

Front CoverJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

The front cover of Jugend from 1900 is a sort of German Industrial design that forshadows the next thirty or more years. A gianr Janu, or two-faced statue, draped with garlands, is inscribed with the [...]

Keywords: book covers, art deco, statuary, statues, people, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-05-23

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Jugend EndpaperJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

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.

Keywords: endpapers, nature, plants, nuts, fruit, snow, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-05-23

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Jugend Magazine, January 1900, Front CoverJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

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 [...]

Keywords: book covers, art, art nouveau, time, zodiac, astrology, people, bare feet, clocks, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-12

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Nude Woman with FlowersJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

A naked woman, seen in profile, stretches up to a giant orchid.

Keywords: people, nudity, bare feet, flowers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-05-23

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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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Panik! Panik!Jugend [German art magazine] (1900)

Everyone in the dance hall runs screaming, fleeing for their lives, when the medusa demon appears! Note, this was a double-page spread in issue 8 of Jugend Magazine, and the line down the middle is wh [...]

Keywords: mythical creatures, medusa, fear, crowds, panic, mythological creatures, screaming, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-13

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Panik! Detail: MedusaJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

Medusa has snakes for hair and don’t look, Medusa’s gaze will turn you to stone!

This is a detail from Panik! Panik!M painted orange.

Keywords: mythical creatures, medusa, colour, snakes, faces, horror, spooky

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-16

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A tiny woodland fairy with wingsJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

This small fey woodcut (around two inches, or 50mm, tall) shows a naked winged beaded man in a tree, or perhaps in some tiny patch of mushrooms.

Keywords: fairies, imaginary creatures, men, people, wings, nudity, bare feet, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-05-17

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Portrait of Anna HeyseJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

Born Anna Schubart, the subject of this picture married Paul Heyse, the german poet, in 1867. Franz von Lenbach was a friend of Paul, and painted the picture that inspired this (somewhat insipid) repr [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, women, lips, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-11-20

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NovelleJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

A man and woman, or two ladies, are out in the countryside near a mountain; one appears to be whispering something to the other, who smiles. Perhaps it’s a proposal of marriage, maybe they are to get [...]

Keywords: people, women, affection, gossip, conversation, costumes, dresses, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-09-08

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The Lost City Under the SeaJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

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. The picture is delicate, printed in [...]

Keywords: poetry, poems, cityscapes, views, cities, underwater, floods, flooded, people, men, nudity, bare feet, fish, spires, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-09-06

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Enjoyment of LifeJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

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, illustrated a verse from a poem by the f [...]

Keywords: meadows, green, streams, water, trees, springtime, spring, life, joi de vivre, people, women, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2018-09-14

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Kullervo as a BoyJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

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 [...]

Keywords: bous, nudity, bare feet, illustrations for children, mythology, nature, drawing, sketches, people, trees, animals, cows, colour

Places shown: Finland

Added: 2018-09-16

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Le Baiser (The Kiss)Jugend [German art magazine] (1900)

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 some [...]

Keywords: kisses, romance, people, men, women, couples, affection, love, duitones, hair, poetry, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-01-29

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Kneeling at prayer by candlelightJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

The poem that appeared at upper left is given below, first in automatically translated English and then in my transcription of the German. The fairy tale of the king’s heart It struck a royal hear [...]

Keywords: people, prayer, candles, women, kneeling, devout, illustrations for children, mediaeval costumes, costumes, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-02-21

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Back coverJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

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 at [...]

Keywords: book covers, pictures of books, people, beards, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-05-23

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Festoon or Garland of RosesJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

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 [...]

Keywords: roses, flowers, ornaments, borders, festoons, colour, red

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-06-21

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