Jugend Cards
Description: Jugendstil ("Youth Style") was an artistic movement, particularly in the decorative arts, that was influential primarily in Germany, Austria, and elsewhere in Europe to a lesser extent from about 1895 until about 1910. It was the German and Austrian counterpart of Art Nouveau. The members of the movement were reacting against the historicism and neo-classicism of the official art and architecture academies. It took its name from the art journal Jugend, founded by the German artist Georg Hirth. It was especially active in the graphic arts and interior decoration.
Description: Jugend – Münchner illustrierte Wochenschrift für Kunst und Leben (German for 'Youth – Munich illustrated weekly for art and life') (1896–1940) was an influential German arts magazine. Founded in Munich by Georg Hirth who edited it until his death in 1916, the weekly was originally intended to showcase German Arts and Crafts, but became famous for showcasing the German version of Art Nouveau instead. It was also famed for its "shockingly brilliant covers and radical editorial tone" and for its avant-garde influence on German arts and culture for decades, ultimately launching the eponymous Jugendstil ('Youth Style') movement in Munich, Weimar, and Darmstadt's Darmstadt Artists' Colony.
Description: A bold Jugendstil-inspired linocut composition featuring a horned central grotesque, a winged imp, a sinister jester and a charging group of monstrous beasts framed by a vivid red circular field. Heavy black forms, warm ivory tones and strong period typography give the piece the look of a strange fin-de-siècle magazine cover or occult carnival print.
Jugend Grotesque Parade – Vintage Demon & Beast Linocut Card
by My Favorite Things — Graphic Works
$5.00 $6.00
Illustration from a issue of Jugend, 1897 Card
by WAITE-SMITH VINTAGE ART
$5.00 $6.00
Illustration from a issue of Jugend, 1900s Card
by WAITE-SMITH VINTAGE ART
$5.00 $6.00
