A portrait of the German Kaiser, Wilhelm II. The Kaiser's ambitions for empire were a contributing factor in the outbreak of World War One. During the late 19th Century, Germany became an ...

World War One was one of the great turning points of ... A major 30-part Essay series, Minds At War, paints portraits of leading thinkers from the arts and sciences including Thomas Mann, Otto ...

Painted two years before the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, it depicts a leader ... Knirr painted two versions of the Hitler portrait, one of which was displayed in July 1937 in the ...