Johannes Gehrts

St. Pauli/Hamburg 1855 – Dusseldorf 1921

“ Already in the early 1880s Gehrts earned his fame as illustrator by the reproduction of his works in popular magazines like Die Gartenlaube … as well as by the design of youth books and works of his friend Felix Dahn … The spectrum of subjects illustrated by Gehrts covered Germanic heroic legends, marine, and pirate stories up to travel adventures and fairy-tales. The illustrations of the scientific expedition reports by the German physician and anthropologist Karl von den Steinen hold a special place among his work … Today Gehrts is predominantly known by his numerous book illustrations ”
(Sabine Schroyen, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon LI, 45 f.)

Aurochs Hunting (in the Duchy of Oldenburg)

Bremen – In the Rathskeller

Disembarkation Boat

View on the Elbe and Hamburg Harbour

Heroic Death of the Stedinger

Herring Fishermen Putting to Sea

Lübeck – In the Shipper’s House

Claus Störtebecker’s Capture near Heligoland

Storm Flood

“Uncles” ( Commercial Agents ) at the Afternoon Coffee

Vierland Peasants in the “Best Room”

„ … Die (vom Schwiegervater geerbten Par force-Jagd) Ridinger … habe ich in meinem Arbeitszimmer bestens neben einem Gobelin plaziert und möchte sie nicht mehr verkaufen. Besten Dank und ein Kompliment an Ihr Haus, dass sie nach so vielen Jahren noch an mich gedacht haben “

(Herr K.-A. H., 2. Februar 2004)