Group photo of (L–R) Gustav Ophüls, Johannes Brahms, Bram Eldering, and Alwin von Beckerath at the chamber music festival at Schloss Hagerhof in Bad Honnef near Bonn, Whitsun, 1896. The festival fell a few days after Clara Schumann’s funeral. Library of Congress, Moldenhauer Archives.
Johannes Brahms, Capriccio, Op. 76, No. 1, manuscript dated 12 Sept. 1871. Music Deposit 17 (formerly known as Ma21 B73 op. 76 no. 1). Gift of S. Ellsworth Grumman, Gilmore Music Library, Yale University.
Max Klinger, Brahmsphantasie, 1894, illustration to accompany Brahms’s “Alte Liebe,” Op. 72, No. 1 (“Bewegt, doch nicht zu sehr”). Public domain.
Henri Fantin-Latour, “To Johannes Brahms,” lithograph, 1900. Cleveland Museum of Art, open access, available at Wikimedia Commons.
Brahmshaus Baden-Baden, Watercolor by Josef Eisinger, 1999. Copyright Josef Eisinger, shared with
permission.
The Brahmshaus in Baden-Baden.
Rudolf Weyr (1847–1914), Johannes Brahms monument on the Karlsplatz in Vienna. Available at Wikimedia Commons.
August Stauda (1861–1928), Brahms’s apartment at Karlsgasse 4, Vienna, c. 1905, where he lived from 1871 until his death. Wien Museum Online Sammlung, open access.
Memorial plaque at the last residence of Johannes Brahms, Karlsgasse 4, Vienna. Available at Wikimedia Commons.
Thomas Darboven (b. 1936), “Brahms cube depicting the fourth phase of life of Johannes Brahms,” 1981, granite relief, at the Laeiszhalle, Hamburg. Available at Wikimedia Commons.
Claus Görtz (b. 1963), bronze statue of composer Johannes Brahms in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, 2012. Available at Wikimedia Commons.
Hermann Hubacher (1885–1976), bronze memorial to Johannes Brahms on the Brahms-Quai, Thun, erected in 1933. The “Lauschende Mädchenfigur” (Listening Girl) or “Brahmsrösi” stands on the site of the house where Brahms rented rooms in summers 1886–1888. Photograph by Valerie Goertzen.