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Cartoon & Illustration References - "Jugend"
10 years ago
The magazine "Jugend" was published in Munich Germany from 1896 to 1940. It was an art & illustration magazine with essays & criticism, and also with a humorous and satyrical edge. It had color pages and many black & white illustrations. Early issues were a showcase for German Art Nouveau artists.
There are digital files (in high resolution) via the University of Heidelberg libraries. Not knowing German, I cannot say what copyright restrictions there may be, or if the material is allowed to be in public domain. It would be best to check. But you can still look at the pretty pictures.
Background information from the library (in German) --
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/hel.....ls/jugend.html
The specific links to individual issues of "Jugend" --
http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/jugend
As a sample issue (especially if you like the artist, Heinrich Kley) --
Jugend #5 from 1910 --
http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/di.....9d43e7c50f3dd2
There are digital files (in high resolution) via the University of Heidelberg libraries. Not knowing German, I cannot say what copyright restrictions there may be, or if the material is allowed to be in public domain. It would be best to check. But you can still look at the pretty pictures.
Background information from the library (in German) --
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/hel.....ls/jugend.html
The specific links to individual issues of "Jugend" --
http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/jugend
As a sample issue (especially if you like the artist, Heinrich Kley) --
Jugend #5 from 1910 --
http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/di.....9d43e7c50f3dd2
http://www.simplicissimus.info/index.php?id=5
This seems to be a project shared by several German universities.
There was a Dover Books sampler of pre-WW1 art from this magazine. Very stylish illustration and cartoons. Kley was matched by many other artists (to my surprise).
The basic wikipedia-level articles seem to hint that all of these magazines had to accommodate to the reality of Nazi political culture to survive... and they may have closed down (at least for a while) as the war came closer to Germany.
I also love the illustrations in the magazine "Ver Sacrum" which I think was a publication of the Vienna Secession... unless it was actually the Weimar Secession. One of those two!