Brahms Images

Johannes Brahms in 1855
Calotype of Johannes Brahms taken around 1855. Robert-Schumann-Haus Zwickau, available at Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph of Johannes Brahms in a suit
Johannes Brahms. Erwin Hanfstaengl (1838–1904), Frankfurt, 1884. Courtesy of the Bildarchiv der Österreischischen Nationalbibliothek.
Johannes Brahms in 1889
Johannes Brahms. C. Brasch (1825–1886), Berlin, 1889. Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1860–1979,
Photo of Strauss and Brahms on a balcony
Johann Strauss, Jr. and Johannes Brahms in Ischl. Rudolph Krziwanek (1843–1905), 1894. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Four men in discussion, including Brahms with a cane
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.
Silhouette of Brahms with a red hedgehog
Brahms on his way to the Rote Igel (Red Hedgehog Restaurant). Otto Böhler (1847–1913), handcut silhouette. The New York Public Library Digital Collections, Joseph Muller Collection.
Decorated page with handwritten score
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.
Klinger is stretched out on the roof, one slipper discarded, going through his old love letters, accompanied by a dispirited Cupid
Max Klinger, Brahmsphantasie, 1894, illustration to accompany Brahms’s “Alte Liebe,” Op. 72, No. 1 (“Bewegt, doch nicht zu sehr”). Public domain.
Angel with a trumpet and woman in a white gown with laurel crowns at Brahms' grave
Henri Fantin-Latour, “To Johannes Brahms,” lithograph, 1900. Cleveland Museum of Art, open access, available at Wikimedia Commons.
watercolor of Bramshaus Baden-Baden
Brahmshaus Baden-Baden, Watercolor by Josef Eisinger, 1999. Copyright Josef Eisinger, shared with permission.
A large white house with a balcony and covered porch
The Brahmshaus in Baden-Baden.
Brahms sits pensively on a chair; below him is an angel with a lyre
Rudolf Weyr (1847–1914), Johannes Brahms monument on the Karlsplatz in Vienna. Available at Wikimedia Commons.
Black-and-white photo of an apartment building
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, in Vienna
Memorial plaque at the last residence of Johannes Brahms, Karlsgasse 4, Vienna. Available at Wikimedia Commons.
Stylized relief of Brahms in old age
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.
Bronze statue of a bearded Brahms holding his hat and pointing
Claus Görtz (b. 1963), bronze statue of composer Johannes Brahms in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, 2012. Available at Wikimedia Commons.
statue of a woman, in a flowerbed, at the edge of a lake
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.