On the history of costumes. The Munich Picture Gallery 1848 to 1898.

Münchener, Bilderbogen, Geschichte, Kostüme,
Münchener Bilderbogen 1848 bis 1898. Zur Geschichte der Kostüme.

Published by Braun & Schneider. Royal Court and University Printing Office of Dr. C. Wolf & Sohn in Munich.

The Munich Picture Gallery 1848 to 1898. On the history of costumes.

Introduction



This famous costume pictures were published in weekly editions in the years between 1858 and 1898. The title was: Munich pictures sheet (Münchener Bilderbogen), the history of costumes. Edited and published by Kaspar Braun &  Friedrich Schneider in Munich.

A total of 125 sheets appeared with each 4 costume pictures from the different fashion eras. The people and their costumes were often presented in scenic stagings. The images appeared as black and white or colored woodcut and served next to the function as teaching images for the lower and middle classes of society as a wall decoration.

It started with the peoples of antiquity, Egyptians, Medes, Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, Renaissance and modern times. The illustration of the costumes is one of the best ever created. The drawings are shown a maximum of detail and lifelike reproduction. The costume images were later bound as books and republished. The performing artists were William Dietz, Count Franz von Poch, Carl Appold, Wilhelm Busch, Lothar Meggendorfer, Anton Kraus, Moritz von Schwind, Edward Illke to name just a few of more than hundred artists.

Accordingly, the costume templates are ideal for an introductory-style search. What we call today the fast changing fashion, consisted of mankind in earlier decades, in larger time intervals. The level of detail in the context of costume eras is extremely high. For example, the now-forgotten flea fur, unthinkable today. During the Middle Ages in the face of rudimentary hygiene, an indispensable fashion accessory. Used by the citizen up to the queen. Also faith is reflected in the details again, for example in the form of amulets that were worn as jewelry or necklaces.

The origin of this costume pictures goes back among other things, to the collection of Franz von Lipperheide † 30. Juli 1906. Born 1813 in Berlebung Germany, he learned the trade of bookseller, then became publisher and editor of the fashion magazine “Fashion World”. Many well-known artists made on his behalf to special costume drawings, which were then published among others also in Munich pictures sheet. He also founded a now-famous costume library, which was later transferred to the Museum of Applied Arts. It is today the world’s biggest collection on the cultural history of clothing and fashion. It is constantly expanded through donations and acquisitions, shows every year one or more exhibitions,  and is publicly available.

The collection for „Costume Science” in 1896 had a population of 686 oil paintings, 200 miniature portraits, 2750 drawings, 23,750 printing and reproduction graphics, 2580 photographs,  5560 monographs, 840 almanacs and 2185 magazines. 1990 is the holdings of the costume library 31,800 monographs and journals, 167 albums with drawings, 81 albums with photographs, approximately 100,000 leaf graphic, 8000 drawings and 36,000 fashion photographs. (Source Wikipedia)

Ancient costumes: Rome, Greeks, Assyrians, Medes, Jewish and Persians.

Costume Plates Ancient:



Early Middle Ages: Byzantine, Carolingian, Christians, Arabian, Frankish.

Description Costume History Early Middle Ages 4th to 10th centuries

Costumes 11th – 14th century.

Description Costume history eleventh to fourteenth century.

Costumes 15th – 16th Century.

Description Costume History XV and XVI century.

Costumes 16th – 17th Century.

Description Costume History XVI. and XVII. century.

Costumes 17th – 18th Century.

Description Costume History XVII. and XVIII century.

Costumes 18th – 19th Century.

Description Costume History XVIII and XIX century.

Illustration, Dragons, fighting,

Related

Le Costume historique by Auguste Racinet was originally published in France 1876-1888 and was regarded as the biggest and best study of clothing that had ever been written. He presented the history of clothing and style from antiquity to the end of the 19th Century – from the clothes of the ancient Etruscans on the costume of the Inuit to the French Haute Couture 19th Century.

Examples of Franz of Lipperheide published costumes.