Stollwerck’s Sammel Album No. 2

This set of Stollwerck trade cards from 1898 carries the title “Imaginative Images”. It shows, from left to right the following motifs: Two Bicycle Riders, Two Siblings, Three Little Children, Nectar of the Gods, A Small Coffee, and A Waitress.

The cards were designed by the German artist Helene Schulz who won second place in the prize competition to design cards for Stollwerck. The pictures on the cards reflects the new decorative trend in art called “Art Nouveau” or, in German, “Jugendstil”.