page_title: Led Zeppelin II
section_title: Artwork
hierarchical_section_title: Led Zeppelin II / Artwork
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Jagdstaffel 11, Manfred v. Richthofen "Die berühmte Jagdstaffel 11 mit Manfred v. Richthofen am Steuer seines "Roten Flugzeuges". Aus dieser Jagdstaffel ist das Jagdgeschwader I, das amtlich den Namen "von Richhofen" führte, hervorgegangen. Während seines einjährigen Bestehens 1917/18 erfocht das Richthofen-Geschwader nicht weniger als 1.000 Siege. Rittmeister von Richthofen, Träger des Ordens Pour le Merite, war mit 25 Jahren Kommandeur des Geschwaders geworden, das an dem Frontabschnitt, wo es eingesetzt wurde, nach einem militärischen Ausspruch den Kampfwert mehrerer Divisionen besass." Abgebildete Personen: Richthofen (in der Albatros D.III). Von links nach rechts, stehend: unbekannt (möglicherweise Leutnant Karl Allmenroeder); Hans Hintsch; Vizfeldwebel Sebastian Festner; Leutnant Karl Emil Schaefer; Oberleutnant Kurt Wolff; Georg Simon; Leutnant Otto Brauneck. Sitzend: Esser; Krefft; Leutnant Lothar von Richthofen.(siehe http://cas.awm.gov.au/item/H12364)
context_page_description: Led Zeppelin II is the second album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released on 22 October 1969 in the United States and on 31 October 1969 in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at several locations in both the United Kingdom and North America from January to August 1969. The album's production was credited to the band's lead guitarist and songwriter Jimmy Page, and it was also Led Zeppelin's first album on which Eddie Kramer served as engineer.
  The album exhibited the band's evolving musical style of blues-derived material and their guitar riff-based sound. It has been described as the band's heaviest album. Six of the nine songs were written by the band, while the other three were reinterpretations of Chicago blues songs by Willie Dixon and Howlin' Wolf. One single, "Whole Lotta Love", was released outside of the UK, and peaked as a top-ten single in over a dozen markets around the world.
  Led Zeppelin II was a commercial success, and was the band's first album to reach number one on charts in the UK and the US. The album's cover designer David Juniper was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package in 1970.
context_section_description: The album sleeve design was from a poster by David Juniper, who was simply told by the band to come up with an interesting idea. Juniper was a fellow student of Page's at Sutton Art College in Surrey.
  Juniper's design was based on a photograph of the Jagdstaffel 11 Division of the German Air Force during World War I, the Flying Circus led by the Red Baron. Juniper replaced four of the flyers' heads with photos of the band members, added facial hair and sunglasses to some of the flyers' faces or replaced some with the faces of other people. The blonde-haired woman is French actress Delphine Seyrig in her role as Marie-Magdalene in the film Mister Freedom, a leftist anti-war satire by William Klein (1969). The cover also pictured the outline of a Zeppelin on a brown background (similar to the cover of the band's first album), which gave the album its nickname "Brown Bomber".
caption: The World War I photograph on which the album sleeve was based
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