More animal art. Chickens. 19th century chickens but looking about the same. Painted in Germany by Julius Scheuerer (1859-1913). Poultry and peacock. 1899. Signed “Jul Scheuerer – Munich – 1899” on the bottom right. In the public domain due to age. via https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0a/29/2a/0a292a40f6719f59723bcbc3d68fa078.jpg In front of the stable. 1897. German. Signed “Jul Scheuerer – Munich – 1897” on the bottom left. Image © Hampel Fine Auctions, Munich. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.hampel-auctions.com/a/Julius-Scheuerer-1859-1913.html?a=70&s=24&id=64241&g=Gemaelde-19-20-Jhdt “Truthahn, Hahn, Hühner, Küken und Taube an der Tränke.” ca. 1880-1890. German. Oil on panel. Signed Jul Scheuerer” on the bottom right. Image © Ketterer Kunst Auctions. Fair use license. via https://www.kettererkunst.com/details-e.php?obnr=117000493&anummer=446&detail=1
Silver aquamanile, ewers modeled as animals or humans. Various countries and makers. All fun. Aquamanile in the motif of a duck with engraved feathers and a thin belt and a handle modeled as a dragon with two intertwined serpents grasping the back of the duck’s head. Yellow glass eyes and crest. ca. 1800. Austro-Hungarian. Silver with yellow glass. Image © 2020 Sothebys. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/style-orfevrerie-et-objets-de-vertu/an-austrian-hungarian-silver-aquamanile-circa-1880 Pair of silver aquamaniles modeled as standing lions wearing crowns with spots formed as protuding tongues. 19th c. Silver. Spanish Colonial, probably made in Peru. Apparently unmarked. Image © CHRISTIE’S 2020. Fair use license. via https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/a-pair-of-spanish-colonial-silver-aquamaniles-6135757-details.aspx 1600 Silver-gilt war elephant aquamanile with a removable plate on the head, two sinks at the trunk and the tail serving as a handle. The design based on the story of Hannibal who crossed the Alps with elephants. 1600. Made in Nuremburg, Germany. Silver-gilt. Christoph Jamnitzer gold worker (1563-1618). Photo © Karen Bartsch, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin. Fair use license. via https://www.design-is-fine.org/post/105696205539/christoph-jamnitzer-aquamanile-in-the-form-of-an
Jugenstil artwork from “Jugend magazine: Münchner illustrierte Wochenschrift für Kunst und Leben,” Band 1, Number 1-26 which was published in 1902 in Münich. “Ich bin die Flamme . . …” Page 67. Fritz Hegenbart, Munich, artist. Collections of the Heidelberg University Library. Image © Heidelberg University Library. Fair use license. via https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/jugend1900_1/0067/image Page 184 (detail). Erich Kleinhempel, Dresden, artist. Collections of the Heidelberg University Library. Image © Heidelberg University Library. Fair use license. via https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/jugend1900_1/0187/image “An Paul Heyse.” Page 199 (detail). Walther Püttner, Munich, artist. Collections of the Heidelberg University Library. Image © Heidelberg University Library. Fair use license. via https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/jugend1900_1/0202/image “Apollo schlug die Cither, und Venus bezauberte alles, indem sie dazu einen Tanz aufführte” aus Max Klinger “Amor und Psyche.” Page 201. Theodore Stroefer’s Kunstgering, Nürnberg, artist. Collections of the Heidelberg University Library. Image © Heidelberg University Library. Fair use license. via https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/jugend1900_1/0204/image H. Meyer-Cassel, Starnberg, artist. Page 237. Collections of the Heidelberg University Library. Image © Heidelberg University Library. Fair use license. via https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/jugend1900_1/0243/image
Watercolors of fruit and flowers, done between 1828 and 1833 by Bavarian artist Kaspar Hauser about whom very little is known. Also drew. Basket of fruit. 1828-1833. Bavarian. Kaspar Hauser, watercolorist. Image source commons.wikimedia.org. In the public domain due to age. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kaspar-hauser-art Fruit, flowers and acorns. 1828-1833. Bavarian. Kaspar Hauser, watercolorist. Image source commons.wikimedia.org. In the public domain due to age. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kaspar-hauser-art Flowers. 1828-1833. Bavarian. Kaspar Hauser, watercolorist. Image source commons.wikimedia.org. In the public domain due to age. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kaspar-hauser-art Fruit. 1828-1833. Bavarian. Kaspar Hauser, watercolorist. Image source commons.wikimedia.org. In the public domain due to age. via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kaspar-hauser-art
Paintings with so much going on you could get tired just looking at them. Bavarian. Albrecht Altdorfer, artist. Living from 1480 to 1538 in Regensburg during the Northern Renaissance, Altdorfer acquired an interest from his father who painted miniatures. “The Battle of Alexander at Issus.” 1529. Bavarian. Oil on panel. Collections of the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Signed and dated on the bottom left “AA / 1529 / ALBRECHT ALTORFER ZU REGENSPVRG FECIT.” In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 100 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_Altdorfer,_The_Battle_of_Alexander_at_Issus.jpg “The Battle of Issus.” (Fragment). ca. 1529. Image © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. Fair use license. via https://www.amazon.com/battle-Issus-fragment-Albrecht-Altdorfer/dp/B076JQVR4N
Jugendstil imagery from “Jugend: Münchner illustrierte Wochenschrift für Kunst und Leben,” Band 1, Number 1-26 which was published in 1902 in Münich. Chapter heading for “The Ichthyosaurus.” Number 1, image 9. 1902. Richard Pfieffer, Munich, creator. Collections of the Heidelberg University Library. Image © Heidelberg University Llibrary. Free access image. via https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/jugend1902_1/0009/image “Sanatogen, Nervenstärkendes Kräftigungs und Auffrischungsmittel für Erwachsene und Kinder.” Bauer and Cie. 1902. Collections of the Heidelberg University Library. Image © Heidelberg University Library. Free access image. via https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/jugend1902_1/0035/image “Brunnenmasken ” (Fountain masks). Number 10, page 156. Ludwig Hohlwein, Munich, creator. 1902. Collections of the Heidelberg University Library. Image © Heidelberg University Library. Free access image. via https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/jugend1902_1/0161/image “Requiem.” Page 209. Wilhelm Volz, creator. 1902. Collections of the Heidelberg University Library. Image © Heidelberg University Library. Free access image. via https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/jugend1902_1/0209/image
Watercolors of palatial looking interiors possibly belonging to the lord of the manor down the street by Bavarian painter Franz Xaver Nachtmann who worked in Munich. (1799-1846). Also painted flowers for the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory.. “The Dressing Room of King Ludwig I at the Munich Residence Palace.” 1836. Pen and ink, gold paint, gouache and graphite on white wove paper. Collections of the Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 100 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Franz_Xaver_Nachtmann_-_The_Dressing_Room_of_King_Ludwig_I_at_the_Munich_Residence_Palace_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Elizabeth of Bavaria’s bedchamber, Tegernsee Castle. 19th c. Collections of Castle Ringberg. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.art-prints-on-demand.com/a/nachtmann-franz-xaver/elizabeth-of-bavarias-bed.html Munich Residence; Queen Therese of Bavaria’s writing cabinet. 1835. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Franz_Xaver_Nachtmann,_Schreibkabinett_M%C3%BCncher_Residenz.jpg
Watercolors of palatial looking interiors possibly belonging to the lord of the manor down the street by Bavarian painter Franz Xaver Nachtmann who worked in Munich. (1799-1846). Also painted flowers for the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory. “The Dressing Room of King Ludwig I at the Munich Residence Palace.” 1836. Pen and ink, gold paint, gouache and graphite on white wove paper. Collections of the Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 100 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Franz_Xaver_Nachtmann_-_The_Dressing_Room_of_King_Ludwig_I_at_the_Munich_Residence_Palace_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Elizabeth of Bavaria’s bedchamber, Tegernsee Castle. 19th c. Collections of Castle Ringberg. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.art-prints-on-demand.com/a/nachtmann-franz-xaver/elizabeth-of-bavarias-bed.html Munich Residence; Queen Therese of Bavaria’s writing cabinet. 1835. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Franz_Xaver_Nachtmann,_Schreibkabinett_M%C3%BCncher_Residenz.jpg
Paintings of horses by Johann Georg de Hamilton who lived from 1672 to 1737. Born in Munich which was then part of the Southern Netherlands, he later moved to Vienna and then Berlin, ending up back in Vienna. Painted a lot of hunting scenes, too. “The Piebald Stallion at the Eisgruber Stud.” ca. 1707. In the public domain due to age. via https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-piebald-stallion-at-the-eisgruber-stud-johann-george-von-hamilton.html “Cerbero.” ca. 1725. In the public domain due to age. via https://fineartamerica.com/featured/cerbero-johann-georg-von-hamilton.html “Gitano” ca. 1721-1726. Collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Wagenburg. Cc0 License 4.0. via http://www.kulturpool.at/plugins/kulturpool/showitem.action?itemId=270583573678&kupoContext=default
Glassine bags that Bavarian cough drops came in. Kirstein made the cough drops, not sure who made the bags. First half of the 20th century, perhaps from the 1930s. Apple and banana. Vintage. Public domain. http://www.letterology.com/2014/07/bavarian-bonbon-bags.html?m=1 Citrus fruit. Vintage. Public domain. via http://www.letterology.com/2014/07/bavarian-bonbon-bags.html?m=1 Purple cough drops. Vintage. Public domain. via . http://www.letterology.com/2014/07/bavarian-bonbon-bags.html?m=1