18 German cigarette cards of German Culture through the Centuries, issued 1935

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Offered here are 18 original German cigarette cards of the Great German Cultural Figures from the late Middle Ages to the 19
th
Century. The cards were issued in 1935 by the Reemtsma Cigarette Co. for the album
Rühmesblätter deutscher Geschichte
(Glorious Events in German History). Each picture is a painting done by well-known artists of the 19
th
century.. Pictured here are:
No. 25:
The Highpoint of Medieval German Culture (c. 1200). (Painting by Hoffmann). Knightly poets sang their poetry at noble courts about German ways, noble women, love and heroic adventures. Two of the most famous medieval poets were Walther von der Vogelweide and Wolfram von Eschenbach.
No. 37:
The Young Artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) becomes an apprentice to the artist Wohlgemuth. (Painting by Beyerlein). Michael Wohlgemuth’s workshop in Nürnberg is the cradle of German paintig and wood carving. It was here that Albrecht Dürer learned the technical side of artistic work.
No. 39:
Kaiser Maximilian crowns Ulrich von Hutten with the poet laureate crown (1517). (Painting by Becker). The feisty humanist Ulrich von Hutten, imbued with the national spirit, was crowned by the emperor with a wreath of garland that had been woven by the daughter of the Augsburger patrician Konrad Peutinger.
No. 47:
Emperor Karl V has his portrait done by the famous artist Tizian (c. 1530). (Painting by Carl Becker). Emperor Karl V’s love of the arts showed itself in a gesture he made while sitting for his portait: when the artist dropped a brush, the Emperor bent down and picked it up.
No. 48:
Hans Sachs (1494-1576). (Painting by Rex).The shoemaker and poet Hans Sachs was the most prolific writer of his time. Richard Wagner created an unforgetable memorial to him in the opera “The Meistersinger of Nuremberg”.
No. 115:
Goethe (1749-1832) in Sesenheim. (Painting by Borckmann). In 1770 Goethe met the pastor’s daughter Frederike Brion in Sesenheim. His love for her produced some of the most beautiful poetry in the German language, as for example the poem “Wie herrlich leuchtet mir die Natur” (I am awed by the magnificence of nature).
No. 116:
Schiller reads from his play “Die Räuber” (The Robbers) (Painting by Theobald von Oer). Schiller wrote his highly successful first play in 1780 at the Karl School in Stuttgart, one of the military academies established by the Duke of Württemberg. As Schiller was reading his play to fellow students, the Duke surprised them and forbade the printing of the play.
No. 117:
Goethe in Italy (Painting by Wilhelm Tischbein). Goethe’s travels to Italy were of vital importance to his development as a writer. During the trip he wrote three of his famous plays:
Iphigenie
,
Egmont
, and
Tasso
.
No. 118:
Schiller in Weimar (around 1800). (Painting by Lindenschmit). Schiller, who moved to Weimar in 1799, often read from his plays at the court of Duke Karl August and Duchess Anna Amalia.
No. 119:
Alexander von Humboldt and Bonpland witness a meteor shower while on board a ship off the South American coast (1799). (Painting by K. Storch). Alexander von Humboldt was able to brig together most of the scientific thinking of his time in the book “Cosmos”. In it he attempted to unite classical idealism and modern science.
No. 120:
Beethoven and Goethe in Teplitz (1812). (Painting by Carl Röhling). When Goethe and Beethoven were at Bad Teplitz the family of the emperor arrived. Beethoven want to walk with the “line of nobles”, but Goethe left Beethoven’s side and instead removed his hat to let the royals pass by.
No. 121:
The Philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and his guests at table. (Painting by E. Doerstling). Immanuel Kant, one of the greatest philosophers in the world, almost never left his home town of Königsberg. However, he regularly had discussions over dinner with many of the leading intellectuals and politicians of the city.
No. 122:
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) as a Public Speaker. The Philosopher Fichte helped to bring about the uprising of Prussia against the French with his “Speeches to the German Nation”, in which he railed against the times and suggested ways to throw off the French yoke. (Painting by Kampf).
No. 123:
Young Mozart Performs for Empress Maria Theresia on October 13, 1762. (Painting by Schultheiß). The six-year-old Mozart, known at that time throughout Europe for his musical talent, was invited by the Austrian Empress to perform at Castle Schönbrunn. After he was done playing, he climbed up onto the Empress’s lap in order to give her a kiss.
No. 124:
The Composer Josef Haydn Travels to England (1790). (Painting by Carl Röhling). Haydn’s trip to England was one of the few travels outside of Austria that he ever undertook. He was a musical director at a church in Vienna, but in England he received many honors, including a “Doctor of Music” degree from Oxford University.
No. 125:
Beethoven (1770-1827). (Painting by L. Binenbaum). Beethoven, one of the greatest musical geniuses of all times, lived an introverted life dedicated only to his music. This master of tones was struck by a progressive loss of hearing that culminated in total deafness.
No. 126:
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Among His Friends. (Painting by Carl Röhling). Schubert, the master of the German Lied, never experienced material wealth or comfort. Instead, he sought enjoyment by performing for his friends, among them the famous painter Moritz von Schwind.
No. 241:
The Composer Richard Wagner in his home, called “Wahnfried”. (Painting by Beckmann). Wagner often invited leading artists of the time to his house in Bayreuth. Among them was the composer Franz Liszt, the father of Wagner’s wife, Cosima, and her first husband, Hans von Bülow.
On the back of each card at the bottom are directions on how people collecting these pictures in the 1930s could get the album for the pictures. The cards from the Waldorf-Astoria Co. read: "You can get the album for these 328 pictures for  1 Reichsmark at any cigarette store or by paying that amount to the following Post Office checking account: Munich 1979." Please note: the number "1979" here is
not
a date/year, but a postal account number.
Each card measures 3 and ¼ inches by 2 and ¾ inches.
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