PROCLAMATION OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE AT VERSAILLES by Anton von Werner 1894 Print
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| Management number | 486177 | Release Date | 2025/07/09 | List Price | $28.50 | Model Number | 486177 | ||
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PROCLAMATION OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE AT VERSAILLES Art by Anton von Werner 1894 Print
This is a Wood Engraving / illustration / print that has been taken from a book dated 1894 and is ready for framing. Measures approximately 11 1/2 x 9 inches.
Werner's second painting, like the Hall of Fame, was also a great success. The Hohenzollern family asked Werner enthusiastically to paint another painting of the imperial proclamation to give it to the Iron Chancellor Bismarck for his 70th birthday in 1885. In the brevity of the time, Werner could only satisfy the wish by colouring the black and white model of the Zeughaus. Again the participants had grown older. At the end of March 1885, Werner used a visit to the Grand Duke of Baden in his studio to update his depiction of the painting. One exception was Roon, who had died in 1879 and was not present in 1871. William I had insisted on putting him in the painting because of his close relations to Bismarck. Werner painted Roon as if he would
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