Das Schweizerland. Eine Sommerfahrt durch Gebirg und Thal. In Schilderung von Woldemar Kaden.

Title

Das Schweizerland. Eine Sommerfahrt durch Gebirg und Thal. In Schilderung von Woldemar Kaden.

Description

This 421-page book describes a summer trip through the mountains and valleys of Switzerland. With a total of 90 views and pictures of towns and landscapes in Switzerland, listed in the index. In addition, numerous text illustrations (approx. 32) with index. The descriptions are by Woldemar Kaden. The German folklorist, theologian and author of travel literature Woldemar Kaden (1838 -1907) was head of the German school in Naples in the last third of the 19th century and professor of German at the local lyceum and grammar school. He published his impressions of his travels through Italy and Switzerland in, among others: Wandertage in Italien (1874), Skizzen und Kulturbilder aus Italien (1889), Die Gotthardbahn und ihr Gebiet (1889) or Durch's Schweizerland (1895). The volumes are generously illustrated with engravings that can be regarded as historical documents. Das Schweizerland also belongs in this category. One of many different illustrators is Gustav Bauernfeind. Gustav Bauernfeind (1848-1904) was a well-known painter who studied at the Polytechnic in Stuttgart. Enthralled by the magic of the Orient, he finally settled with his family in Jerusalem in 1896 after several trips to the Orient. Despite a plague epidemic and the prevailing xenophobia, he had undertaken to paint a district of Jaffa in 1887 and achieved fame with this picture. Bauernfeind cultivated both a very precise and a very free style. Architectural depictions and cityscapes are highly realistic. His romantic landscape paintings, on the other hand, are freely designed. In the illustrations for Das Schweizerland, he captures episodes of everyday life in Zurich in the 19th century with great skill. With their romantic perspective, the pictures lend the work a special charm. His Zurich city views (e.g. Partie aus Zürich and Rathausquai in Zurich), which are among his major works, deserve special mention here. Woodcuts by A. Closs, A. Braith, Alexander Calme Arthur Calme, L. Dill, and many others. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart.

ca. 1875

Artist

Gustav Adolf (1836-1911)

Gustav Adolf Kröner, (1836-1911)Stuttgart, was a German publisher and chairman of the Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhändler. He became particularly well known for his demand for fixed prices for books, which was implemented in the so-called Kröner reform and is still in force today. Adolf von Kröner was the son of the staff courier and later hospital administrator Ludwig Ferdinand Kröner (1807-1862) and Christine Magdalene Ebner (1799-1876). His brothers Carl (1835-1929) and Paul Kröner (1839-1900) became publishers, as did he himself. In 1859, Adolf Kröner took over the court and chancellery book printing business of his father-in-law Carl Mäntler and founded his first publishing house, Mäntler Brothers (A. Kröner), together with his brother Paul in the same year. Carl Kröner, his brother, joined the publishing house as a partner in 1867, while Paul Kröner took over the print shop in 1864. In 1877, the two companies were brought back together under one roof under the name Gebrüder Kröner. In 1884, Adolf Kröner expanded his company by taking over the publishing house of the late Ernst Keil, who published the magazine Die Gartenlaube, and took over the editorship of the magazine until the sale of Ernst Keil's successor to the major Berlin publisher August Scherl in 1903.

Historical Description

Since 1848, the Swiss Confederation has been a federal state of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of confederacy that goes back more than 700 years, putting them among the world's oldest surviving republics.The early history of the region is tied to that of Alpine culture. Switzerland was inhabited by Gauls and Raetians, and it came under Roman rule in the 1st century BC. Gallo-Roman culture was amalgamated with Germanic influence during Late Antiquity, with the eastern part of Switzerland becoming Alemannic territory. The area of Switzerland was incorporated into the Frankish Empire in the 6th century. In the high medieval period, the eastern part became part of the Duchy of Swabia within the Holy Roman Empire while the western part was part of Burgundy.