Letterforms - II

Ludwig Hohlwein
Ernemann Kinoptikon
ca. 1913
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ernst Lubbert
Vera Cigarettes
1911
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Louis Oppenheim
S. Adam - Fur Care
ca. 1910
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Hans Rudi Erdt
Nivea Haarmilch
1910
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Urban Janke
Imperial Jubilee Homage Parade, Vienna
1908
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Wilhelm Kåge
Författarelotteriet
(writers' lottery)
1955
lithograph (poster)
Röhsska Museet, Göteborg

Hans Unger
Ernemann Camera
1904
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Sebastian Lucius
Grosse-Berliner Kunst-Ausstellung
1911
lithograph (poster)
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Peter Schlemihl's Amazing History
1915
color woodblock print
(title page)
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Arno Breker
Kunstmuseum der Stadt, Düsseldorf
1959
lithograph (poster)
Museum Folkwang, Essen

Anonymous Austrian Designer
Edison Kinetophon now at Kruger Kino, Vienna
1910
lithograph (poster)
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Gustav Klimt
Letter to Norbert Wien
1909
ink on paper
Leopold Museum, Vienna

Anonymous French Designer
Ex Libris - Crecy
ca. 1700-1750
etching
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Anonymous German Designer
Ex Libris - Beloselsky
ca. 1750-1800
etching (printed in sepia)
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Anonymous German Designer
Ex Libris - Merkel
ca. 1700-1750
engraving
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Eric Rohman
Greta Garbo in Anna Christie
1929
lithograph (poster)
Röhsska Museet, Göteborg

Though I, Mycenae, am but a heap of dust here in the desert, though I am meaner to look at than any chance rock, he who gazes on the famous city of Ilion, whose walls I trod underfoot and emptied all the house of Priam, shall know thence how mighty I was of old. If my old age has used me ill, the testimony of Homer is enough for me. 

Adventure, thou inventor of ships (for thou didst discover the paths of the sea, and didst excite men's minds by hope of gain), what treacherous timbers didst thou fashion; what lust for gain, oft brought home to them by death, hast thou instilled into men! Of a truth the race of mortals had been a golden one, if the sea, like hell, were viewed from the land in dim distance.

After I had traversed innumerable waves of the limitless sea, and stood firm for a season on the land, I was destroyed not by the sea, the terror of ships, but on shore by fire. Who will say that the sea is the more treacherous of the two? It was the earth on which I came into being that destroyed me, and I lie on the beach, reproaching the land for the fate I expected from the sea. 

The simple covering of my cloak is enough for me; and I, who feed on the flowers of the Muses, shall never be the slave of the table. I hate witless wealth, the nurse of flatterers, and I will not stand in attendance on one who looks down on me. I know the freedom of scanty fare. 

If anyone who has reached old age prays for life, he deserves to go on growing old for many decades.
 
If thou art a man, stranger, draw water from this fountain; but if thou art effeminate by nature, on no account drink me. I am a male drink, and only please men; but for those naturally effeminate their own nature is water.*

– from Book IX (Declamatory and Descriptive Epigrams) of the Greek Anthology, translated and edited by W.R. Paton (1917)

*this seems to be a vindication of the fountain of Salmacis near Halicarnassus, the water of which had the reputation of making men effeminate