Shown here is the cover of the two-volume book Deutschlands Ruhmeshalle im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, published around 1900. The cover is a representative example of traditional German book art covers of the Imperial period (1871-1914). It shows an angel in knight’s armor with a laurel wreath on its head. The decorative frame around the title and picture are indicative of pre-modernist tendencies in book cover art of the time around 1900.
Deutschlands Ruhmeshalle im Neunzehnten Jahrhundert (Germany’s Hall of Fame in the Nineteenth Century)
