Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Max Karl Tilke (6 February 1869 2 August 1942) was a well-known artist and ethnographer. Born in Breslau (Wroc aw), Prussian Silesia, he entered the Berlin Academy of Arts in 1886 and, as a student, traveled in Italy and Tunisia in 1890. After graduating from the Academy, he worked first in Berlin as an artist/decorator and then at the Prado in Madrid as a copyist. This period had a great influence on the formation of Tilke s work. After Spain, he worked in Paris as an illustrator in 1900. At this point, he was already known for having knowledge on costumes. Returning to Berlin, he began to paint works of historical costumes, which gained him a reputation among the authorities and in high society. In 1911, at the Lipperheide Costume Library of the Berlin Kunstgewerbe Museum, Tilke had an exhibition of his first collection. The exhibition was so well received that it was purchased for the library with state monies.