Deutsches Kolonial-Bilderbuch
A German colonial picture book for children, illustrated by Rudolf Hellgrewe with verses by Hertting and Wünsche, published in Germany by Leutert & Schneidewind in 1901. Each chromolithographed plate shows a non-European scene, such as a rider on an ox in southwest Africa, Maasai warriors, a coconut climber, or a Chinese sail cart, framed by ornamental Art Nouveau borders with a rhyming German verse below. A designer might take the decorative plant-stem and palm-frond framing, the flat bold colour blocks, and the stylised rendering of landscape and figures as models for period-style graphics.
