A group of unidentified young people from Șona (Brașov County), Transylvania, Romania. Not dated.
Jan Wnęk, "Apostle sleeping in Gethsemane" (detail), polychrome on wood
Odporyszów, Poland, 19th century
Robert Boehringer, Ernst Gundolf, Ernst Morwitz, Berthold Vallentin, and Friedrich Gundolf in Isenfluh (Switzerland), 1911 or 1912
Robert Boehringer, Mein Bild von Stefan George (München/Düsseldorf: Helmut Küpper/Georg Bondi, 1951)
Stefan George and his Heidelberg "novices", Pentecost 1919.
From left to right, standing: Ernst Morwitz, Erich Boehringer, Percy Gothein, and Woldemar von Uxkull.
The poet Ludwig Derleth (German, 1870–1948) in an undated photograph.
This photo was sent by Derleth's widow, Christine, to Felix Maria Wiesner on on 29 July 1947, in a larger of packet of photographs.
Derleth's eternal preoccupation with Napoleon is evident from the poster in the background (one of many Napoleon portraits that he owned and usually liked to be photographed alongside).
From my personal collection.
An abbot holding a book and crosier, with a mitre and halo (possibly St. Benedict), in a manuscript from Southern Germany, ca. 1200/13th century?
Calendarium (Prayer calendar), Latin Bible selections: Liber Psalmorum, Cantica with prayers; Hymns, etc., Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Codex Bodmer 30, f. 10v
Bruno Schulz (Polish/Jewish, 1892–1942)
"Święto wiosny" ("The Rite of Spring"), ca. 1920–1922
Zvi Aldouby and representatives of the groups “Nitzanim” and “Dror” from the youth village in Santa Maria al Bagno, during the joint Sukkot celebration of the UNRRA DP camps in Lecce province, southern Italy, 1946.
Photo 23/1, private collection of Zvi Aldouby (Jerusalem, Israel)
Published in Verena Buser and Chiara Renzo, "Training for Aliyah: Young Jews in Hachsharot across Europe between the 1930s and late 1940s", Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History 21, no. 1 (2022)
Erich Lessing (Austrian, 1923–2018)
Herbert von Karajan bei Proben in der Felsenreitschule während der Salzburger Festspiele (Herbert von Karajan at a rehearsal in the Felsenreitschule during the Salzburg Festival), 1957
Juli Soler i Santaló (1865–1914)
A man and two women gather around a stone cross in Alquézar (Huesca, Aragon), 1907
Lity procession in the Serbian village of Petrovo Selo (Petrovaselo, Timiș), Banat, Romania, 1907
Radivoje Simonović / Ivan Terzić (via serbianfolk)
if i lowered my defences you would know how i feel inside if i gave you the key to my chastity belt you could totally destroy my pride
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"Mother and Son" by Boris Yermolayev (autolithograph, 1960s)
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Reclining Nude, 1930, Zinaida Serebriakova
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William Forsyth 1854-1935. ASL, Munich, Indianapolis, Indiana ,Nashville, Brown County, Indiana. Irvington. Hoosier Group member. Founder Herron Art School, Indianapolis, Indiana. Courtesy http://images.indianahistory.org
Bookplate of Alois Kučík, undated, illustrator not credited
From top to bottom: the writers Demostene Botez, George Topîrceanu, Ioan Alexandru Brătescu-Voinești, Mihail Sadoveanu, and Ionel Teodoreanu, and the geologist Ion Simionescu (on the left, below Botez) in Iași, 1927
Published alongside the article "Misiunea scriitorului este de a alina suferințele altora", Porunca Vremii, 17 July 1938, 4.