Recently, I found the Youtube channel of Pete Beard, an illustration enthusiast in the UK. I’ve hardly scratched the surface of the many video that he’s begun to put together chronicling the history of unknown and under-appreciated illustrators, but one of the first fun discoveries from him was Jugend Magazine.
Judend was a weekly magazine published in Germany from the late 19th century until the end of the Second World War. It’s pages are a gold mine illustration styles, but if the name of the magazine sounds familiar to you as it did to me, it’s because it inspired the term Jugendstil.
Copies of Jugend are few and far between, but the pages have been scanned and made available online by the Heidelberg University Library. Check it out for yourself, and view a sampling of a few pages below.
