Johannes Gehrts#External links
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Johannes Gehrts (26 February 1855 St. Pauli – 1921 Düsseldorf), brother of Carl Gehrts (1853–1898), was a leading German illustrator whose work appeared in popular magazines such as Die Gartenlaube, in the design of children's books and in works of his friend Felix Dahn. He depicted scenes from Germanic and Norse mythology, legends and sagas, pirate stories, travel adventures and fairy-tales. He also illustrated reports on the scientific expeditions of the German physician and anthropologist Karl von den Steinen. During World War I, Gehrts produced a number of works, in dull blacks and grays, showing scenes from the front, a few of which became postcards.
Gehrts attended the art academy of Weimar from 1873 to 1876, and lived in Düsseldorf from 1884 onwards.
Gallery
File:Dietrich fängt den Zwerg Alfrich by Johannes Gehrts.jpg|Dietrich catches the dwarf Alfrich (1883)
File:Freya by Johannes Gehrts.jpg|Freya
File:Gehrts Armin verabschiedet sich von Thusnelda 1884.jpg|Arminius says goodbye to Thusnelda (1884)
File:Ostara by Johannes Gehrts.jpg|Ostara (1884)
File:Walther und Hildgund auf der flucht (1883) by Johannes Gehrts.jpg|Walther and Hildegund on the run (1883)
File:Titelblatt Felix Dahns Sämtliche Werke poetischen Inhalts.jpg|Title page for Felix Dahn's works
File:Oserich und Oda by Johannes Gehrts.jpg|Oserich und Oda
File:Gehrts Ivanhoe.jpg|Ritter Ivanhoe
See also
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External links
- [http://germanicmythology.com/works/GEHRTSART.html Collected illustrations] from Walhall: Germanische Götter- und Heldensagen' by Felix Dahn and Therese Dahn, 1885.
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Category:19th-century German painters
Category:19th-century German male artists