Notable Figures of Post-War Germany
The popularity of cigarette card albums in the postwar years in Germany was due in part to their offering the public a chance to see things from around the world in their own home. Advances in mass producing color images and collecting them in such albums made them something like a “personal museum”.
One of the most popular albums of the 1920s was the series “Die Welt in Bildern” (The World in Pictures), of which there were five. Among the many different topics they covered, ranging from earlier centuries to the present and from Indonesian dance, or African ceremonial masks, to modern architecture and film stars, there were also pages devoted to contemporary German cultural figures in literature, stage and the visual arts.