Masterpiece of Gothic architecture in brick in Northern Germany / The Holstentor (Holsten Gate) in Lübeck, built by Hinrich Helmsted, 1470–1477, an imposing monument of the architecture of civic fortifications / From a photograph by the National Messbildanstalt, Berlin
Johann Sebastian Bach, born at Eisenach, March 21, 1685, died at Leipzig, July 28, 1750 / From the painting by Johann Jakob Ihle / Reprint from the Corpus Imaginum of the Photographischen Gesellschaft, Charlottenburg
The contest of the Minnesingers at the Wartburg / Part of the fresco in the Castle of the Wartburg in Eisenach, Thuringia, painted in 1855 by Moritz von Schwind / The Landgravine Elizabeth, before whom is kneeling Heinrich von Ofterdingen, is painted in the likeness of the Grand Duchess Amalie of Weimar (1739–1807) the patroness and protector of German poesy in Weimar
Portion of the Choir stalls in the Cathedral Church at Ulm / One of the most perfect and beautiful of the old Gothic Choir stalls in Germany / Carved in oak. Masterpiece of the elder Jörg Syrlin, 1469–1474 / Photograph by the Münsterbauamt in Ulm