Thread by @jholbo1

Sunday morning "Jugend" thread, first half of 1898. I'll just pick whatever seems nice, or fantasy-related. The vignettes are often quite fun. 1/

That first one looks racist but a 'Wenzel' is a jack. Like on the card. A 'joker' then? I don't get it. 2/

I like the signature T-shaped ornaments, dividing the page. As to that 4th - everyone is against Germany, within and without! I'm not sure what happened in 1898 in particular to trigger this cartoon. 3/

The woman and the devil. Evidently they swap heads. 4/

Very Roberta Flack energy. 5/

The "Jugend" aesthetic is very broad. Satyrs or fauns. They'll take either. 6/

Nice stuff, eh? 7/

Böcklin! Cat show. Nice line work. Nice caricature. 8/

I like that cover. It has a nice Carlos Nines quality. 9/

Vampirella, 1898 style. Ex Libris. 10/

Vignettes. Like the green cover. 11/

Fashionable society, death, medusa. "Jugend" loves it all. 12/

I'm giving you the right-side-up and upside-down versions of the 'puzzle' picture. Love Mr. Muscle there. 13/

Burne-Jones and Justin Kerner, klecksography. 14/

Humorous. I love that orange-rust-brown plus acid green combo throughout. Not sure it there was something in the print process that drove them to it. 15/

Death, plus a Heinrich Kley. 16/

Böcklin. He does the chickenleg thing weirdly. 17/

I posted that guy with the moose horns once before. Love that guy. It's such an obvious Kirby thing to do. Moose horns. But I don't think Kirby ever actually did a moose, per se. 18/

Hippo! Card designs. 19/

Nice. 20/

Wild fantasy stuff. "How I became a modern art dealer." I haven't bothered to squint at the Fraktur, but I'm guessing statuettes of Cthulhu? 21/

Badger! Icicle! Fish! 22/

Chicks, dudes, manly symbols, snakes, death. 23/

Centaurs! Kittens! 24/

Cards. 25/

Few last ones and we're done for the morning. 26/

And ... 27/

We're done for the first half of 1898. end/