Tag: German

Tired of munching on cookies. Time to work off all those calories with a visit to the animals at the zoo. Imagery From “Zoo Berlin – 1841-1929: Zur Geschichte des Zoologischen Gartens zu Berlin.” Published in 1929, the text is by Dr. Adolph Heilborn.

Vor dem Affenhause. Gemälde von Jean Loves (1879). Image 8 of Zoo Berlin 1841-1929. Zur Geschichte des Zoologischen Gartens zu Berlin. Text by Dr. Adolph Heilborn. Published by the Board of Directors of the Berlin Zoological Gardens. Jacob Brothers Printing House, Berlin, printers. Uploaded by the Polish Public Domain Repository. Via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/dlibra.bibliotekaelblaska.pl.KD.2932_300.151876295/page/n7/mode/1up
Bärenbrube. Zeichnung (1858) von H. Leutemann. Image 9 of Zoo Berlin 1841-1929. Zur Geschichte des Zoologischen Gartens zu Berlin. Text by Dr. Adolph Heilborn. Published by the Board of Directors of the Berlin Zoological Gardens. Jacob Brothers Printing House, Berlin, printers. Uploaded by the Polish Public Domain Repository. Via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/dlibra.bibliotekaelblaska.pl.KD.2932_300.151876295/page/n9/mode/1up
Restauration. Zeichnung (1863) von Baudouin. Image 11 of Zoo Berlin 1841-1929. Zur Geschichte des Zoologischen Gartens zu Berlin. Text by Dr. Adolph Heilborn. Published by the Board of Directors of the Berlin Zoological Gardens. Jacob Brothers Printing House, Berlin, printers. Uploaded by the Polish Public Domain Repository. Via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/dlibra.bibliotekaelblaska.pl.KD.2932_300.151876295/page/11/mode/1up
Das Antilopenhaus im zoologischen Garten in Berlin. Farbige lithographie (Guckkaasten bild 1872). Page 23 of Zoo Berlin 1841-1929. Zur Geschichte des Zoologischen Gartens zu Berlin. Text by Dr. Adolph Heilborn. Published by the Board of Directors of the Berlin Zoological Gardens. Jacob Brothers Printing House, Berlin, printers. Uploaded by the Polish Public Domain Repository. Via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/dlibra.bibliotekaelblaska.pl.KD.2932_300.151876295/page/23/mode/1up

Feuerwerk zu Ehren des Berliner Kongresses. Zeichnung (1878) von Knut Ekwall. Page 29 of Zoo Berlin 1841-1929. Zur Geschichte des Zoologischen Gartens zu Berlin. Text by Dr. Adolph Heilborn. Published by the Board of Directors of the Berlin Zoological Gardens. Jacob Brothers Printing House, Berlin, printers. Uploaded by the Polish Public Domain Repository. Via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/dlibra.bibliotekaelblaska.pl.KD.2932_300.151876295/page/29/mode/1up
Das junge Reitpferd im Zoologischen Garten zu Berlin. Rad der Ratur gezeidnut von Paul Menerheim. Page 32 of Zoo Berlin 1841-1929. Zur Geschichte des Zoologischen Gartens zu Berlin. Text by Dr. Adolph Heilborn. Published by the Board of Directors of the Berlin Zoological Gardens. Jacob Brothers Printing House, Berlin, printers. Uploaded by the Polish Public Domain Repository. Via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/dlibra.bibliotekaelblaska.pl.KD.2932_300.151876295/page/32/mode/1up
Kinderkarawane. Zeichnung (1879) von Knut Ekwall. Page 35 of Zoo Berlin 1841-1929. Zur Geschichte des Zoologischen Gartens zu Berlin. Text by Dr. Adolph Heilborn. Published by the Board of Directors of the Berlin Zoological Gardens. Jacob Brothers Printing House, Berlin, printers. Uploaded by the Polish Public Domain Repository. Via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/dlibra.bibliotekaelblaska.pl.KD.2932_300.151876295/page/35/mode/1up
Elefantenhaus. Zeichnung (1882) von H. Müuzel. Page 39 of Zoo Berlin 1841-1929. Zur Geschichte des Zoologischen Gartens zu Berlin. Text by Dr. Adolph Heilborn. Published by the Board of Directors of the Berlin Zoological Gardens. Jacob Brothers Printing House, Berlin, printers. Uploaded by the Polish Public Domain Repository. Via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/dlibra.bibliotekaelblaska.pl.KD.2932_300.151876295/page/39/mode/1up
Elefantenportal – Photograph A. Rupp. Page 51 of Zoo Berlin 1841-1929. Zur Geschichte des Zoologischen Gartens zu Berlin. Text by Dr. Adolph Heilborn. Published by the Board of Directors of the Berlin Zoological Gardens. Jacob Brothers Printing House, Berlin, printers. Uploaded by the Polish Public Domain Repository. Via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/dlibra.bibliotekaelblaska.pl.KD.2932_300.151876295/page/51/mode/1up
Vogelgang im alten Berliner Aquarium. Farbige Lithographie (Guckkastenbild). Um 1870. Page 59 of Zoo Berlin 1841-1929. Zur Geschichte des Zoologischen Gartens zu Berlin. Text by Dr. Adolph Heilborn. Published by the Board of Directors of the Berlin Zoological Gardens. Jacob Brothers Printing House, Berlin, printers. Uploaded by the Polish Public Domain Repository. Via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/dlibra.bibliotekaelblaska.pl.KD.2932_300.151876295/page/59/mode/1up
Blick in die Krokodilhalle des Aquariums. Photograph A. Rupp. Page 61 of Zoo Berlin 1841-1929. Zur Geschichte des Zoologischen Gartens zu Berlin. Text by Dr. Adolph Heilborn. Published by the Board of Directors of the Berlin Zoological Gardens. Jacob Brothers Printing House, Berlin, printers. Uploaded by the Polish Public Domain Repository. Via the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/dlibra.bibliotekaelblaska.pl.KD.2932_300.151876295/page/61/mode/1up

Live the aspirational Jugendstil way. Imagery from a 1902 issue of “Moderne Bauformen. Eine Sammlung von Details, Interieurs und Façaden für Architekten und Bauhandwerker.” Published in Stuttgart by Julius Hoffman.

Treppenhaus einer Stadtvilla. Edgar Wood, Manchester artist. Julius Hoffman, Verlag, Stuttgart publisher. Plate 3, Image 23 from Moderne Bauformen. Eine Sammlung von Details, Interieurs und Façaden für Architekten und Bauhandwerker. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/modernebauformen03unse/page/n22/mode/1up
Halle der Villa Mez in Freiburg i. Br. von Professor Hermann Billing— Karlsruh. Julius Hoffman, Verlag, Stuttgart publisher. Image 28 from Moderne Bauformen. Eine Sammlung von Details, Interieurs und Façaden für Architekten und Bauhandwerker. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/modernebauformen03unse/page/n28/mode/1up
Halle der Villa Rudolph in Zürich. von Curjel & Moser— Karlsruhe. Julius Hoffman, Verlag, Stuttgart publisher. Plate 8, Image 40 from Moderne Bauformen. Eine Sammlung von Details, Interieurs und Façaden für Architekten und Bauhandwerker. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/modernebauformen03unse/page/n40/mode/1up?view=theater
Inneres eines Atelier Gebäudes. von G. M. Ellwood — London. Julius Hoffman, Verlag, Stuttgart publisher. Plate 13, Image 48. from Moderne Bauformen. Eine Sammlung von Details, Interieurs und Façaden für Architekten und Bauhandwerker. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/modernebauformen03unse/page/n48/mode/1up?view=theater
Lesesaal eines Hotels. von L. MacLachlan — Stuttgart. Julius Hoffman, Verlag, Stuttgart publisher. Plate 18, Image 64. from Moderne Bauformen. Eine Sammlung von Details, Interieurs und Façaden für Architekten und Bauhandwerker. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/modernebauformen03unse/page/n64/mode/1up?view=theater
Diele eines Landhauses am Meer. von Oskar Fischer — Kiel. Julius Hoffman, Verlag, Stuttgart publisher. Plate 20, Image 68. from Moderne Bauformen. Eine Sammlung von Details, Interieurs und Façaden für Architekten und Bauhandwerker. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/modernebauformen03unse/page/n68/mode/1up?view=theater
Entwurf zu einem bürgerlichen Wohnzimmer. von Valentin Mink Darmstadt. Julius Hoffman, Verlag, Stuttgart publisher. Plate 32, Image 98. from Moderne Bauformen. Eine Sammlung von Details, Interieurs und Façaden für Architekten und Bauhandwerker. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/modernebauformen03unse/page/n98/mode/1up?view=theater
Entwurf zu dem Erfrischungsraum eines Hotels. von J. Bassompierre — Paris. Julius Hoffman, Verlag, Stuttgart publisher. Plate 45, Image 140. from Moderne Bauformen. Eine Sammlung von Details, Interieurs und Façaden für Architekten und Bauhandwerker. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/modernebauformen03unse/page/n140/mode/1up?view=theater
Zimmer: Number 20. Gästezimmer aus einem Hotel in Wiesbaden. von L. Mac Lachlan— Stuttgart. Julius Hoffman, Verlag, Stuttgart publisher. Plate 63, Image 186. from Moderne Bauformen. Eine Sammlung von Details, Interieurs und Façaden für Architekten und Bauhandwerker. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/modernebauformen03unse/page/n186/mode/1up?view=theater
Halle des Landhauses auf Tafel 73 von Gesellius, Lindgren & Saarinen Helsingfors. Plate 75, Image 228. Julius Hoffman, Verlag, Stuttgart publisher. from Moderne Bauformen. Eine Sammlung von Details, Interieurs und Façaden für Architekten und Bauhandwerker. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/modernebauformen03unse/page/n228/mode/1up?view=theater
Speisezimmer des Landhauses auf Tafel 73 von Gesellius, Lindgren & Saarinen Helsingfors. Julius Hoffman, Verlag, Stuttgart publisher. Plate 76, Image 230. from Moderne Bauformen. Eine Sammlung von Details, Interieurs und Façaden für Architekten und Bauhandwerker. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/modernebauformen03unse/page/n230/mode/1up?view=theater

Model rooms, all with tall cabinets (vertikows). Taken from a trade catalogue with 12 complete rooms featuring Vertikows. Art Deco influenced, ca. 1930s. Doesn’t say which country it was printed in but in German so presumably Germany or Austria.

12 moderne Wohnzim̄er u. Salons. Entwürfe für complette Zimmer nebst verschienenen Vertikows, alles in Maßstab gezeichnet u. mit Text versehen. Title page of a trade catalogue with 12 complete rooms featuring Vertikows, written in German. Art Deco ish, ca. 1930s. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/26013458/large-format-trade-catalogue-with-12-complete-rooms-featuring-vertikows-12-moderne-wohnzimmer-u
Damen-Salon. “Salon” in hellstreifigem sapele-Mahagoni oder schwedisch birken, blaugrau gebeizt, mit Intarsien, poliert, vergoldete Beschläge und Fäcettenglaser. Salonschrank 84 breit, 190 cm. hoch. Büstenständer. Sofa 142 lang, 96 cm hoch. Umbau 160 lang, 206 cm. cm hoch. Sofatisch 80/60 c, Spieltisch breit 60, Lange aufgeklappt 80 cm. Schreibtisch 100/66 cm, und Einfacher Schreibtisch 90/62 cm. Tafel (Plate) 11. Taken from a trade catalogue with 12 complete rooms featuring Vertikows, written in German and titled 12 moderne Wohnzim̄er u. Salons. Entwürfe für complette Zimmer nebst verschienenen Vertikows, alles in Maßstab gezeichnet u. mit Text versehen. Art Deco ish, ca. 1930s. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/26013458/large-format-trade-catalogue-with-12-complete-rooms-featuring-vertikows-12-moderne-wohnzimmer-u

“Wohnzimmer”, Eichen, frischgrün gebeizt, Kupferbeschläge. Vertikow, Sofa, Umbau, Auszugtisch, Rorhstuhl und Schrank. Tafel (Plate) 3. Taken from a trade catalogue with 12 complete rooms featuring Vertikows, written in German and titled 12 moderne Wohnzim̄er u. Salons. Entwürfe für complette Zimmer nebst verschienenen Vertikows, alles in Maßstab gezeichnet u. mit Text versehen. Art Deco ish, ca. 1930s. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/26013458/large-format-trade-catalogue-with-12-complete-rooms-featuring-vertikows-12-moderne-wohnzimmer-u
“Wohnzimmer” Nussbaum matt poliert, Einlagen mahagoni und schwarz, innen Eichen, in grünem Kathedralglas mit Messingfassung, Beschläge messing matt. Tafel (plate) 4. Salonschrank 84 breit, 190 cm. hoch. Büstenständer. Sofa 142 lang, 96 cm hoch. Umbau 160 lang, 206 cm. cm hoch. Sofatisch 80/60 c, Spieltisch breit 60, Lange aufgeklappt 80 cm. Schreibtisch 100/66 cm, und Einfacher Schreibtisch 90/62 cm. Tafel (plate) 4. Taken from a trade catalogue with 12 complete rooms featuring Vertikows, written in German and titled 12 moderne Wohnzim̄er u. Salons. Entwürfe für complette Zimmer nebst verschienenen Vertikows, alles in Maßstab gezeichnet u. mit Text versehen. Art Deco ish, ca. 1930s. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/26013458/large-format-trade-catalogue-with-12-complete-rooms-featuring-vertikows-12-moderne-wohnzimmer-u
“Wohnzimmer” Eichen gewachst, oder Satin-nussbaum, innen Eichen mit eingelegten Intarsien; schwarz und hell Mahogani, und Kristall-Facettgläser. BOTTOM Trumeau 250 hoch, 92 breit, 44 cm tief. Sofa-Umbau 180 hoch, 266 cm lang. Sofa 180 lg, 105 h, 70 cm tief. Sofa-Tisch 80 lang (ohne Klappen), 62 tief u. 75 cm hoch. Gläserp-Schrank 205 hm 196 br, u. 42 cm tief. Tafel (plate) 6. Taken from a trade catalogue with 12 complete rooms featuring Vertikows, written in German and titled 12 moderne Wohnzim̄er u. Salons. Entwürfe für complette Zimmer nebst verschienenen Vertikows, alles in Maßstab gezeichnet u. mit Text versehen. Art Deco ish, ca. 1930s. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/26013458/large-format-trade-catalogue-with-12-complete-rooms-featuring-vertikows-12-moderne-wohnzimmer-u
“Salon” in hellstreifigem sapeli-Mahagoni poliert, innen ahorn anpoliert; Einlagen Palisander, schwarz und Perlmutter, Kristallgläser mit Facetten und vergoldeten Beschlägen. Tafel (plate) 12. Taken from a trade catalogue with 12 complete rooms featuring Vertikows, written in German and titled 12 moderne Wohnzim̄er u. Salons. Entwürfe für complette Zimmer nebst verschienenen Vertikows, alles in Maßstab gezeichnet u. mit Text versehen. Art Deco ish, ca. 1930s. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/26013458/large-format-trade-catalogue-with-12-complete-rooms-featuring-vertikows-12-moderne-wohnzimmer-u
Damensalon mit Erkerwand, mahagoni poliert mit schwarzen Einlagen. Polsterstuhl. Sofa 150 lg, 100 cm h. Umbau 220 lg, 210 cm h. Runder Tisch 60 cm D. Standuhr 210 cm h. Schrank 186 h, 90 cm breit. Schreibtisch 95 br, 66 c. tief. Erkerwand 160 h, 80 cm breit. Gondelbankett 165 br, 60 cm h. Postament 120 h, 30 cm D. Schreibstuhl (might be Schneubstuhl) 60 br, 95 cm hoch. Tafel (plate) 13. Taken from a trade catalogue with 12 complete rooms featuring Vertikows, written in German and titled 12 moderne Wohnzim̄er u. Salons. Entwürfe für complette Zimmer nebst verschienenen Vertikows, alles in Maßstab gezeichnet u. mit Text versehen. Art Deco ish, ca. 1930s. Image © 2025 Eclectibles. Fair use license. https://www.eclectibles.com/pages/books/26013458/large-format-trade-catalogue-with-12-complete-rooms-featuring-vertikows-12-moderne-wohnzimmer-u

Fancy eye baths (baignore d’yeux) all in porcelain. Whether they help your eyes more than the plastic CVS kind I don’t know but for sure these are more fun to look at.

Three Sèvres eye baths (bagnoire d’yeux). A bleu céleste example with gilt dentil rim by Buteux; a blue-ground example with gilt white scrollwork and harebells; and a cobalt-blue example painted with a floral garland. Also a Chantilly example in blue and white. Second half of the 18th century. French. Makers marks: two of the Sèvres examples with blue interlaced L’s marks; one with a gilder’s mark for P. T. Buteux; the Chantilly example with a blue hunting horn mark. Image © CHRISTIE’S 2022. Fair use license. via https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/collector-english-european-furniture-ceramics-silver-works-art/three-sevres-porcelain-eye-baths-baignoire-dyeux-chantilly-eye-bath-32/146142?ldp_breadcrumb=back

Porcelain eyebath decorated with delicate and finely painted red roses amongst green and gilt flora with a spread eagle bird in flight at either end. The stem is decorated with gilt leaves and the rim and edges are in gilt. ca. 1880-1899. French. Unsigned. Image © 2022 Phisick. Fair use license. via https://phisick.com/item/19th-c-paris-porcelain-eye-bath/



Eye bath of hard-paste porcelain. Oval cup on funnel foot. Hard-paste eye bath with an oval cup on a funnel foot. Purple ground with two lobed reserves with Höroldt chinoiseries and a gilt lace ornament inside the rim. The interior with a chinoiserie framed by gilt scrolls enclosing lustre panels and laub-und bandelwerk in iron-red and purple. 1730-1735. German. Meissen Porcelain Factory, maker. Maker’s marks: Crossed swords factory mark, in underglaze blue. Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2021. Fair use license. via https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O307059/eye-bath-meissen-porcelain-factory/

Watercolors of interiors in Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, done by the German artist Ferdinand Rothbart. There was a fashion for having watercolorists do portraits of your drawing room, back then. The Russian tsar had a lot of them, too.

Gotha Winterpalais Balkonzimmer 1848. Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (German). In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balkonzimmer.jpg
A so called “Zimmerbild” (chamber painting) of a bedroom in Coburg, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Germany). ca. 1848. German. Scanned from “Biedermeier. Die Erfindung der Einfachheit”, a catalogue of an exhibition.. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zimmerbild_99.jpg
Gotha Winterpalais Frühstückszimmer (Breakfast room in the Winter Palace, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. 1848. German. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr%C3%BChst%C3%BCckszimmer.jpg
“Coburg: interior of the Landestheater,” the Queen and her party are seen about to enter the royal box in the recently opened theatre, to attend a performance of Meyerbeer’s “Les Huguenots”. Sace-Coburg and Gotha. ca. 1845. German. © Royal Collection Trust. Fair use license. via https://www.rct.uk/collection/920477/coburg-interior-of-the-theatre

Rothbart did many commissions for Queen Victoria. These could be part of that as she commissioned a set of Prince Albert’s childhood home, or they could have been commissioned by her brother in law. The theatre watercolor was for Queen Victoria. The others don’t say.

Chromolithographs of places in Sri Lanka back when it was called Ceylon as they looked in 1881. Ernst Haeckel, the German zoologist who did all those illustrations of sea urchins. He published them in 1905 in his book “Die Naturwunder der Tropenwelt, Ceylon und Insulinde.”

Die “Roten Lampen” vom Ceylon “Ratu Pana”, Laterit-Felsen bei Bellige. 1905. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 70 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haeckel_01.jpg
“Riesenbambus von Ceylon: Fahrt auf dem Schwarzen Fluß “Kalu Ganga”. 1905. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 70 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haeckel_02.jpg
“Riesen-Myrte von Ceylon – Urwald von Horton-Plains”.1905. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 70 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haeckel_04.jpg

Study for your botany final the pretty way. Pictures from Jules Auguste Habert-Dys work “Caprices Décoratifs des Oiseaux, des Fleurs, des Paysages, des Algues et Possions” which was published in Plauen, Saxony in 1890. Digitalized by SLUB- Dresden.

Plate. SLUB Dresden Reference ID#51. Collections of SLUB Dresden. Cc0 License 4.0. via https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/151981/5/0/
Plate III. Plate. SLUB Dresden Reference ID25-III. Collections of SLUB Dresden. Cc0 License 4.0. via https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/151981/25/0/#
Plate IV. Plate. SLUB Dresden Reference ID31-IV. Collections of SLUB Dresden. Cc0 License 4.0. via https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/151981/31/0/#
Image 11 from Caprices Décoratifs des Oiseaux, des Fleurs, des Paysages, des Algues et Possions“. Published in 1890. Jules Auguste Habert-Dys. Digitalized by SLUB- Dresden. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/151981/11#
Image 21 from Caprices Décoratifs des Oiseaux, des Fleurs, des Paysages, des Algues et Possions“. Published in 1890. Jules Auguste Habert-Dys. Digitalized by SLUB- Dresden. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/151981/21#
Image 35 from Caprices Décoratifs des Oiseaux, des Fleurs, des Paysages, des Algues et Possions“. Published in 1890. Jules Auguste Habert-Dys. Digitalized by SLUB- Dresden. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/151981/35#

There is another copy of this same work in the Gallica bnf though it might be a 1900 edition too. I’m not sure.

Inkwells and caskets in gold, one made for a Russian tsar and another commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria. Fritz von Miller (1840-1921). he did designing and worked in bronze and gold with a workshop in Munich, Bavaria.

Casket. ca. 1880-85.
Casket. ca. 1880-85. German. Ebony, ivory, silver, gilded metal, lapis lazuli, and amber. Fritz von Miller, designer. Image © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Fair use license. via http://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/File:02.86-SC39657.jpg

Inkstand. 1864.
Inkstand with ornamentation that includes mythical and allegorical figures such as Hercules and the Hydra, Time, and Victory. 1864. Commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as recognition for the royal physician Doctor Ignatz von Zauber in recognition of his twenty-five years of service in the city of Munich’s government. Silver, gilt-bronze, and enamel with rubies, emeralds and diamonds. Designed by Von Miller in partnership with jeweler Adam Hausinger. Photo by John Faier, © The Richard H. Driehaus Museum. Image © The Richard H. Driehaus Museum. Fair use license. via http://driehausmuseum.org/exhibitions/collection-highlights

Presentation casket that may have contained a rare bible, made for Tsar Alexander III.
Presentation casket that may have contained a rare bible, made for Tsar Alexander III. 1883. Made in Munich, Germany. Silver, enamel, hardstone, rock crystal, and gilt-bronze with tooled leather. Inscribed “The Gift of the German State in the year of our Lord, 1883, on the day of the Coronation, Saint Petersburg, the 15th of May.” (English translation). signed at one end “Fritz von Miller München”. Image © Sotheby’s 2019. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/russian-works-of-art-and-silver-n09068/lot.367.html

Portraits of women by German artist Oskar Zwintscher. Living from 1870 to 1916 he studied art in Leipzig and Dresden. Often associated with the Jugendstil movement.

Mirror portrait. 1914.
Mirror portrait. 1914. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years. via https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zwintscher-Mirror.jpg

Bildnis mit narzissen. 1907.
Bildnis mit narzissen. 1907. Image © 2019 MutualArt Services, Inc. Fair use license. via https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/BILDNIS-MIT-NARZISSEN/DF308A7656FDD644

"Sehnsucht." 1895.
“Sehnsucht.” 1895. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years. via http://chasinglife.be/sehnsucht/

Landscapes with the promise of an endless summer. German. Heinrich Reinhard Kröh, artist (1841-1941).

"Angelnder Knabe am Bachufer." 1860.
“Angelnder Knabe am Bachufer.” 1860. Oil on canvas. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years. via http://www.artnet.com/artists/heinrich-reinhard-kr%C3%B6h/angelnder-knabe-am-bachufer-XN9Y9Io20fa-AUqpm2GLnQ2

Bergstraße-Lichtspiele. Undated.
Bergstraße-Lichtspiele. Undated. Oil on canvas. Image © echo-online.de. Fair use license. via https://www.echo-online.de/freizeit/kunst-und-kultur/ausstellungen/suedhessen/hofmaler-mit-heimatsinn_16028892#

Untitled and undated work but signed H R Kröh.
Untitled and undated work but signed H R Kröh. Attributed to Heinrich Reinhard Kröh. Image © 2008-2019 Bukowski Auktioner AB, Stockholm. Fair use license. via https://www.bukowskis.com/en/lots/828427-heinrich-reinhard-kroh-attributed-to-oil-on-canvas-signed-h-r-kroh