Anton von Werner
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Anton Alexander von Werner was a German painter and illustrator best known for his depictions of the Franco-Prussian War and unification of Germany which were painted in the Realist style. A member of
1885 self-portrait of Werner
The Proclamation of the German Empire (3rd version; 1885)
The Arrival of King Wilhelm I in Saarbrücken (1877)
Luther at the Diet of Worms (1877)
Congress of Berlin
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At the Congress of Berlin, the major European powers revised the territorial and political terms imposed by the Russian Empire on the Ottoman Empire by the Treaty of San Stefano, which had ended the R
Anton von Werner
…assembled. — Hans Gude The Arrival of King Wilhelm I in Saarbrücken (1877) Luther at the Diet of Worms (1877) The storming of the Spicheren Heights (1880) Congress of Berlin, 13 July 1878 (1881) A prisoner of war in Jouy-aux-Arches (1886) Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm on the body of General Abel Douay, Weissenburg on 4 August 1870 (1888…
Anton von Werner's painting, Congress of Berlin (1881), depicting the final meeting at the Reich Chancellery on 13 July 1878. Bismarck (representing Germany) is shown in the centre, between Gyula Andrássy (Austria-Hungary) and Pyotr Shuvalov (Russia). On the left are Alajos Károlyi (Austria-Hungary), Alexander Gorchakov (Russia) (seated) and Benjamin Disraeli (Great Britain). On the far right is the Ottoman delegation; showing from left to right,
Bismarck manipulates the emperors of Austria, Germany & Russia like a ventriloquist's puppets.
Allegorical depiction of Bulgarian autonomy after the Treaty of Berlin. Lithograph by Nikolai Pavlovich
Greek Delegation in the Berlin Congress