Richard Wagner, born at Leipzig, May 22, 1813, died in Venice, February 13, 1883 / From the painting by Franz von Lenbach / Reprint from the Corpus Imaginum of the Photographischen Gesellschaft, Charlottenburg

Town-hall and Market Church at Hannover / The Church was completed in 1359, the Town-hall for the most part, dates from the year 1453–1455 / Photograph by the Techno-Photographischen Archiv Hans Herzberg, Berlin

From the golden period of the German Renaissance / The winding staircase in the Gulden Chamber of the Town-hall at Bremen / A masterpiece of wood-carving dating from 1616 / From a photograph by the National Messbildanstalt, Berlin