Munich picture sheet

Moritz von Schwind : Mr. Winter, Munich picture sheet from 1848

The Munich picture sheets were a series of single-sheet prints or picture sheets that the Braun & Schneider publishing house in Munich published fortnightly from 1848 to 1898. Kaspar Braun managed to win over a large number of later well-known artists for the design of this series and to implement his concept of the 'artistic' picture sheet. The printing technique he chose for this was wood engraving and not, as is usually the case with picture sheets, lithography . In the period from 1900 to 1905 a few more picture sheets appeared in irregular succession. The publisher published a total of 1230 picture sheets in 50 annual volumes.

Artist

The Munich picture sheets were designed by the following well-known artists:

• Albert Adamo
• Wilhelm Busch
• Gustav Adolf Closs
• Wilhelm von Diez
• Eduard Ille
• Franz Kreuzer
• Heinrich Leutemann
• Lothar Meggendorfer
• Andreas Müller (composer miller)
• Adolf Oberländer
• Franz von Pocci
• Arpad Schmidhammer
• Moritz von Schwind
• Fritz Steub
• Ludwig Gustav Voltz

literature

• Ulrike Eichler: Munich picture sheet . (= Upper Bavarian Archive; Volume 99). Historical Association of Upper Bavaria, Munich 1974 (also: Dissertation of the University of Karlsruhe, 1972)
• A fun company. 100 Munich picture sheets in one volume . With a foreword by Michael Schwarze. Edition Olms, Zurich 1978, ISBN 3-283-00005-0 (reprint of one hundred sheets of pictures published between 1849 and 1868)

Web links

Commons : Münchener Bilderbogen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Winter in the Munich picture arch (virtual exhibition of the University of Regensburg)
• List of the Munich picture sheets designed by Wilhelm Busch
• Reproduction of the 500 designs published in the series 'On the History of Costumes'
• Wilhelm Tell in the Munich picture sheet
• Christmas in the Munich picture sheet
• Mr. Winter (Munich picture sheet Nro 5)