German Collection

The Legend of Gudrun: Hagen Slays the Griffin

Silhouette. Hansel & Gretel. The brother & sister lost in the woods. German. Date: circa 1912

The Legend of Gudrun: Hagen and the Griffins. Panel from Look and Learn no. 581 (3 March 1973)

WW1 Recruitment Poster -- Y Darn Papur
Y Darn Papur. Recruitment poster, published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee as Poster No. 15. Welsh version of The Scrap of Paper - Prussias Perfidy

Silhouette. The Frog Prince. The princess meets the frog. German. Date: 1920

WW1 Recruitment Poster -- The Scrap of Paper
The Scrap of Paper - Prussias Perfidy - Britains Bond. Enlist Today. Recruitment poster, published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee as Poster No. 7

WW2 Poster -- Smash Em Up
Smash em up, but theirs not ours. Colour lithograph after Starr. Tank recognition poster, showing the easily recognisable differences between British and German tanks. 1941

Christmas fantasy. Santa & children on a train. German. Date: 1906

Silhouette. Red Riding Hood. Cinderella meets the wicked wolf in the woods. German. Date: 1916

Silhouette. Snow White. Snow White pricks her finger at the spinning wheel. German. Date: 1916

Silhouette. The Pied Piper. The Pied Piper leading the children out of the rat infested town of Hamelin. German. Date: circa 1920

Silhouette. The Sleeping beauty. The prince awakens his true love. German. Date: 1920

Silhouette. Hansel & Gretel. Nibble, nibble, who is nibbling at my cottage. The children find the house of the wicked witch. German. Date: circa 1930

Silhouette. King Thrushbeard. The minstrel takes the princess to his hovel where she must carry out menial household chores. German. circa 1909

WW2 Poster -- Back Them Up
Back Them Up! Colour photolithograph printed by Fosh and Cross Ltd, published by HMSO. Showing a British Commando raid on a German-held port in Norway. 1940

Silhouette. Der Sterntaler. Der Sterntaler (Star Money). A young girl finds that stars fall to earth and turn into talers (gold coins) after she has done good deeds, and she becomes rich. German

The Seven Swabians. The Seven Swabians, one of Grimms fairy tales. German. Date: circa 1914

Silhouette. Princess & the Swineherd. The princess paying the swineherd 100 kisses for a menial pot. German. Date: circa 1920

Illustration, Jersey in Jail, man and two women
Illustration, Jersey in Jail, showing a thin man whose trousers are too big for him, chatting with two women -- Very few have any superfluous fat of their own. 1940-1945

Public Information Poster - Preventing Idle Talk
Talk Less - You Never Know A Public Information Poster, highlighting the importance of preventing idle talk which might lead to the divulging of sensitive information pertinent to the war effort to

Illustration, Jersey in Jail, Nazi soldiers in the street
Illustration, Jersey in Jail, showing Nazi soldiers marching down a street -- Sing, all you mis-begotten bounders, sing. 1940-1945

Leaflet design, Lufthansa
Leaflet design, Deutsche Lufthansa, offering Aerobus flights between Cologne and Frankfurt, and steamer trips on the Rhine between Cologne and Dusseldorf. circa 1926

Illustration, Jersey in Jail, farming
Illustration, Jersey in Jail, showing people farming -- Within a year, very few were still working on the land. 1940-1945

Cover design, Luftschiffahrt Ausstellung catalogue
Cover design for the official catalogue of the Internationale Luftschiffahrt Ausstellung (International Airship Exhibition), Frankfurt, 1909. 1909

RAF Poster, Help Britain Finish The Job! WW2
RAF Poster, Help Britain Finish The Job! Showing two British Hawker Hurricane fighters flying over a British aircraft carrier at sea during the Second World War

Luggage label, Zeppelin to South America
Luggage label, Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei (Airline) for the LZ 129 Hindenburg flight to South America. The passenger is a Mrs Sinclair, destination Rio de Janeiro, berth number 32. 1936

Lufthansa Poster, summer flights in Europe
Poster, Deutsche Lufthansa AG, showing summer flights serving cities in Europe from 1 April to 5 October 1935. 1935

Cover design, Jersey in Jail 1940-45, by Horace Wyatt, with illustrations by Edmund Blampied. 1940-1945

Cover design, Deruluft timetable
Cover design, Deruluft (Deutsch-Russische Luftverkehrsgesellschaft, LVG), serving Berlin and Moscow. circa 1934

Illustration, Jersey in Jail, freedom
Illustration, Jersey in Jail, showing people celebrating their freedom at the end of the war. 1940-1945

German lottery game
A German lottery game, Neues Bilder Lotterie Spiel. With eighty miniature pictograms depicting various technologies, including a balloon. circa early 19th century

Cover design, Graf Zeppelin II brochure
Cover design, Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei (German Zeppelin Airline) brochure. Showing an artists impression of the Graf Zeppelin II airship flying over the Empire State Building in New York

Poster, Zeppelin to South America
Poster advertising the German Zeppelin Hamburg-American Line, LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin airship service from Friedrichshafen, Germany, to Buenos Aires, Argentina. circa 1934

RAF Poster, Back Them Up! WW2
RAF Poster, Back Them Up!, showing a raid by Hudson planes of the Coastal Command on German shipping at Aalesund, Norway, during the Second World War, in which eleven ships were hit. 1941

Illustration, Jersey in Jail, praying for deliverance
Illustration, Jersey in Jail, showing people praying for deliverance with a cross on the wall behind them. 1940-1945

Tobogganing
Christmas scene. Tobogganning on snowy slopes in a German village. Date: circa 1915

Aerial attack, WWI by Cyrus Cuneo
An aerial engagement during World War I, showing a German plane crashing to the earth in a column of flame and smoke. Date: 1916

Statue and government building, Munich, Germany
View of the statue of Pallas Athene on the Maximilian Bridge, which crosses the River Isar in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. In the background is a goverment building

Forest near Lake Kochel, Bavaria, Germany
Scene in a forest near Lake Kochel (Kochelsee) in Bavaria, Germany, on a sunny autumn day. Date: early 21st century

Advertisement for Adolf Weber tea, based in Chemnitz, Germany, showing a Japanese woman in traditional costume carrying a tea tray. 20th century

Town Hall, Landshut, Bavaria, Germany
View of the gothic style Town Hall in the city of Landshut, Lower Bavaria, Germany. The building was completed in 1570. Date: early 21st century

Interior, St Martins Church, Landshut, Bavaria, Germany
Gothic interior of the medieval St Martins Church in Landshut, Lower Bavaria, Germany. Building began in 1389 and took over 100 years -- the tower alone took 55 years to build

Nymphenburg Palace, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
View of Nymphenburg Park in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, with the Palace on the horizon. early 21st century

White Star Line / American Line poster
Graphic and modernist style German travel poster advertising the services of White Star Line and American Line ships to America. c.1935

Studienkirche interior, Dillingen, Bavaria, Germany
View of the interior of the Studienkirche (Study Church or University Church), formerly the Jesuit Church of the Assumption, in Dillingen an der Donau, Bavaria, Germany

Advertisement for DAK motor vehicles
Advertisement for DAK (Deutscher Automobil Konzern) motor vehicles, featuring a sports car, a saloon car, a farm vehicle and a bus (Dux, Magirus, Presto and Vomag). circa 1920s

Poster design for Dralle gift boxes (Geschenk Kassetten), with perfume bottles and wrapped gifts in the foreground, and the Three Kings delivering their gifts in the background. 20th century

Facsimile of a leaf with a message during WW2
Facsimile of an autumn leaf bearing a message during World War Two. The message, in French, reads: I have fallen, O Churchill! Where are you? Where are your soldiers

Advertisement for Siwa Tea, based in Stuttgart and London, showing a Japanese woman in traditional costume enjoying a cup of tea. 20th century

Poster design for Continental Pneumatic rubber tyres

Hitlers plan for the New Order during WW2
Hitlers plan for the New Order, depicted in map form. On the collapse of France, the plan was to make peace with Britain, consolidate the German position and start the New Order

Advertisement for the AGA car, from the dealers Autohoffmann of Munich, Germany. The AGA company was founded in 1914, and manufactured cars in Berlin from 1919 to 1929. circa 1920s

Advertisement for Atscha Tea, marketed by J Propheter of Mannheim, Germany, showing a Japanese woman carrying a tea tray. late 19th century

Poster design for Marco Polo Tee (Tea), imported by Franz Kathreiners Nachfolger, Munich. Depicting a Japanese woman in profile, in traditional costume, with a bowl of tea in front of her. 1926

Poster design for Elida toilet soaps, showing a butterfly perching on the top of a large capital letter E. 20th century

Red vintage car at the seaside
A smart red vintage car at the seaside, with people waving to each other, to advertise colour printing by Otto Elsner of Berlin. circa 1920s

Advertisement for the Bosch spark plug, as used in motor engines. 20th century

French wartime poster, spanner in the works
French wartime poster for allied fighters, saying that your compatriots in occupied countries are fighting too. Showing a hand literally putting a spanner in the works of the Nazi war machine. 1940s

Advertisement for Nash motor car
Advertisement for the Nash motor car, 1929 model -- a German advert for an American car. 1929

Advertisement for Meinl coffee

British soldiers take an enemy trench, WWI by Cyrus Cuneo
British soldiers take an enemy trench, using bayonets and bombs as they go, during an offensive on the Western Front during World War I. Date: 1916

Fashionable German woman Date: 1939

German howitzer, Martinpuich, Somme, Western Front, WW1
A German howitzer damaged by British bombardment at Martinpuich on the Somme, Western Front during World War One. circa 1916

German gun emplacement at Combles, Western Front, WW1
One of the German gun emplacements at Combles, France, on the Western Front during World War One. circa 1916

Ruined church at Ypres, Belgium, Western Front, WW1
Scene inside a ruined church at Ypres, Belgium, after German bombing on the Western Front during World War One. circa 1916

Damaged German guns, Pozieres, France, WW1
German guns knocked out of action by British artillery at Pozieres, France, on the Western Front during World War One. circa 1916

Street scene with oxen, Germany
Street scene with oxen near Cochem, Germany. 20th century

Autocar Poster -- French Grand Prix
Autocar Poster -- Lautenschlager in a white German Mercedes car during the French Grand Prix, Dieppe circuit. 1908

Captured German naval gun, Cambrai Front, WW1
A captured 5.9 German naval gun near Cambrai in France on the Western Front during World War One. circa 1916

British soldiers towing captured German gun, WW1
British soldiers towing a captured German gun along a road on the Western Front in France during World War One. circa 1916

German NCO and two wounded guardsmen, WW1
A German NCO and two wounded guardsmen on the Western Front during World War One. circa 1916

Prince Ernest, later Duke of Saxe-Coburg
Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1818-1893), brother of Prince Albert the Prince Consort. Date: 1830s

Captured German plane, Western Front, WW1
A captured German plane on its way to a British aviation depot on the Western Front in France during World War One. circa 1916

Captured German aeroplane, Western Front, WW1
A captured German aeroplane being transported along a road on the Western Front in France during World War One. circa 1916

German prisoners after taking of Guillemont, WW1
British troops watch German prisoners passing by after the taking of Guillemont, France, on the Western Front during World War One. circa 1916

RAF personnel marking German positions, WW1
RAF pilots and observers marking German positions in preparation for a raid, on the Western Front in France during World War One. circa 1916

German ammunition left behind, Morval, France, WW1

Princess Sophia of Saxe-Coburg
H.S.H Princess Sophia of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Countess Mensdorff Pouilly (1778-1835), sister of King Leopold I of the Belgians and the Duchess of Kent, Queen Victorias mother. Date: c.1825

British soldiers find bath in abandoned German dugout, WW1
British soldiers find a bathtub in an abandoned German dugout on the Western Front during World War One. circa 1916

British soldiers taking captured German gun, WW1
British soldiers taking a captured German gun on the Western Front during World War One. circa 1916

Sculpture at Buchenwald, Thuringen, Germany
The scuplture group by Fritz Cremer, representing the inmates resistance during their suffering at the former Buchenwald concentration camp, Weimar, Thuringen (Thuringia), Germany. early 21st century

Die Neue Linie, magazine cover
Magazine cover for Die Neue Linie, a German lifestyle magazine of the 1930s. September 1930

Lady at a festival, Haimhausen, Bavaria, Germany
Lady in costume and mask at a rococo festival in Haimhausen, just north of Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Date: early 21st century

Statue to Bishop Sailer, Dillingen, Bavaria, Germany
View of the statue to Bishop Johann Michael Sailer (1751-1832), in Dillingen an der Donau, Bavaria, Germany. He rose from humble beginnings to become a Roman Catholic Bishop of Regensburg

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