Steininger Art Comics Words Pictures's video: A Lost Land: Germany around 1900 Blue Danube by Strauss Daily life in color

The first color images of Germany rediscover the beauty and optimism of the pre-war period. A portrait in color. Photographs of daily life around 1900. An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314 (On the Beautiful Blue Danube) by Johann Strauss II. http://www.smiletitans.com/Patronoid http://www.smiletitans.com http://www.patreon.com/Steininger http://www.subscribestar.com/SmileTitans End music by Castle If: http://www.castleif.com The turn of the 20th century seemed full of promise for Germany. The suburbs may have teemed with tenements to house the new industrial proletariat, but on spacious new avenues in the city centres, people strolled proudly past magnificent bourgeois residences. The economy was booming, the aristocracy and the military enjoyed unlimited social prestige, and most of the population revered the Kaiser. Through some 800 color pictures, this book presents turn-of-the-century Germany as it liked to see herself: self-confident, glittering, patriotic but also with a belief in progress and – for those who could afford it – a cosmopolitan flair. As in the critically acclaimed An American Odyssey, the images are all rare examples of the historical photochrom process, a printing technique that allowed black-and-white photographs to be reproduced in colour. From Ludwig II’s fairy-tale castles in the Bavarian Alps to glamourous bathing resorts on the North Sea and Baltic, the pictures reveal a Germany of optimism, beauty, and transformation. Technical innovations and modern boulevards sit alongside medieval towns, rural traditions, and mystical forests, creating a fascinating and nostalgic panorama of a long lost epoch before the ravages of time and history set in. https://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/all/01137/facts.germany_around_1900_a_portrait_in_colour.htm