{"id":6820,"date":"2010-02-23T04:10:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T03:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6820"},"modified":"2010-02-23T04:10:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T03:10:50","slug":"jugend-magazine-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/02\/23\/jugend-magazine-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Jugend Magazine revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was just over a year ago<\/a> that I was wishing there was some way to see whole issues of Jugend<\/em> magazine, the German periodical launched in 1896 whose Art Nouveau style gave its name to the movement in Germany, Jugendstil. Yesterday’s search for Heinrich Vogeler artwork turned up that very thing, scanned editions of Jugend<\/em> at the University of Heidelberg’s digital archive<\/a>. Whole numbers from 1896 to 1925! I am aghast. As well as the scanned pages being very high quality you can download the bound collections as PDFs, each one totalling over 400 pages. Leafing through pages of old magazines in a foreign language doesn’t sound very stimulating if you can’t read German but Jugend<\/em> was a very visual publication. Each issue is crammed with a variety of drawings in styles which range from black-and-white Art Nouveau motifs and quasi-Symbolist illustration to humorous drawings and cartoons. Each issue also featured a large drawing or painting on a fold-out spread.<\/p>\n

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I’ve mentioned before that I like the way Jugend<\/em> varied its cover art and title design from one issue to the next, and it’s great to see these covers in detail at a large size, many of them familiar from Art Nouveau textbooks. Some of the interior art is rather naive or poorly done but some of it is also surprisingly strange or downright grotesque in a manner which challenges our customary perception of the staid attitudes of the 19th century. There’s a lot of artwork to look through in these volumes so it’s impossible to post anything more than a brief selection of examples. All the illustrations shown here are from 1896; I haven’t even got to the later years yet. The best thing you can do is download a number and browse for yourself.<\/p>\n

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It was just over a year ago that I was wishing there was some way to see whole issues of Jugend magazine, the German periodical launched in 1896 whose Art Nouveau style gave its name to the movement in Germany, Jugendstil. Yesterday’s search for Heinrich Vogeler artwork turned up that very thing, scanned editions of … Continue reading “Jugend Magazine revisited”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,2,30,4,48,43,45],"tags":[540,1021,199],"class_list":["post-6820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-nouveau","category-art","category-black-white","category-design","category-illustrators","category-magazines","category-symbolists","tag-der-orchideengarten","tag-heinrich-vogeler","tag-jugend"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1M0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}