Antique & Vintage Postcards

Warm ochre stonework glows in afternoon sun as a medieval courtyard unfolds in this richly printed artist's card from 1920 — a scene from the Schlosshof (castle courtyard) at Füssen am Lech, the storied Bavarian town near the Austrian border best known today as the gateway to Neuschwanstein. The painting, rendered with confident architectural draftsmanship and luminous watercolor-like tones, depicts the layered Gothic and Renaissance wings of the Hohes Schloss with their stepped gables, red-tiled roofs, and a dramatic exterior staircase. Dated 1920 in the lower left, this is a Künstlerkarte (artist's card) published by the prestigious Bodensee-Verlag (Karl Alber) of Ravensburg, a house known for high-quality fine-art reproduction cards in the early Weimar era — the kind collectors sought in stationery shops across southern Germany.