It's Sunday, so I should do my weekly "Jugend" run. Today I only got through January of 1899. But first the cover and titlepage from the volume. Lovely embossed stuff, plus bugs and peacock on your head, plus Pan. 1/
Lots of good Julius Diez in this stuff. I was a bit puzzled by Baubo's daughter riding the pig but evident Baubo does that on Walpurgisnacht. 2/ sothebys.com/es/auctions/ec…
I assume the limited color palette is dictated by limits of print technology. But it makes for very charming, if lurid, effects. 3/
We have a Käthe Kolwitz. Not such a great one. More Diez. Mixed pickles. 4/
Society ladies, dissolute mask-wearers and a really great hallucination. 5/
Fantasy stuff. The Orientalist harem has great orange and green. Böcklin kind of fairy stuff. Merpeople. 6/
More ladies and bears. And pan. And ladies. 7/
More Diez. And I like all the bicycle jokes from this era. Peleton as Wild Hunt. That's it for me for tonight. I had a hard day of research into serious stuff. Real hat-on-a-twig stuff, if you know what I mean. 8/
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