German male fashions of the late 15th century. Costume of a court messenger with brooch and lance, from painting of the life of St. Sigismund. And old man with stick and sandals from a painting of the Bavarian school in the Bavarian National Museum. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by I.M. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.