"From the Free Wilderness: Animal Studies from the High Alps in Snapshots." 12 pages of text and 12 plates in photogravure by Obernetter after photographs by Grainer. Franz Grainer (1871-1948) was a royal Bavarian court photographer. Grainer was the son of the photographer Franz Grainer Sr., (1852–1883), who settled in Reichenhall. He had been exposed to photography since he was a child, but before his father died he was still too young to learn photography systematically from him. In 1919 he was one of the founding members of the Society of German Photographers (GDL), the predecessor of the German Photographic Academy, which he later took over as chairman and was still holding when the National Socialists came to power. The large-format folio and elaborate publisher’s binding reflect its status as a luxury art publication at the fin de siècle.

Grainer’s images blend documentary precision with a romantic vision of the natural world, depicting hunting scenes, Alpine landscapes, and animals in motion. Today, examples of his photogravures and other works are preserved in major German collections, including the Museum Folkwang in Essen and the Fotomuseum at the Münchner Stadtmuseum, where they continue to illustrate the intersection of photography, nature, and cultural memory.