Sujet

Bismarck, from Les Génies de la Mort, 1870. Creator: Edmond Guillaume.

Légende

Bismarck, from Les Génies de la Mort, 1870. Edmond Guilliaume’s images are blunt caricatures that combine well-known German symbols, war leaders, and macabre images of destruction. Otto von Bismarck became prime minister of the Prussian state in 1862 and of the unified German Empire in 1871. To a French audience, he was the cruel leader of the Franco- Prussian War. With a skull head, pointed Prussian helmet, and Prussian eagle superimposed on his face, Bismarck looms like a poisonous, grasping plant over the destruction of the French countryside. Playing off a noble coat of arms, Guilliaume gave the French enemy a ghoulish image of death.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM23B17_452

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

54,0Mo (4,5Mo) / 32,2cm x 42,0cm / 3804 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Germany portrait animal people man men head historical German arts politics bird birds country eagle art guy skull color bird of prey scene armour political war depiction location century drawing empire gallery helmet drawings print prints concept exhibition printing exhibit raptor illustrated caricature politician warfare art gallery Colour 19th century Prussian politicians lithograph nineteenth century statesman culture history historic chancellor Prussia Otto von Bismarck lithography illustration German Empire Bismarck Otto von Prince Otto Edward Leopold von Count Otto Edward Leopold von Bismarck Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck Duke of Lauenburg Art Institute of Chicago wove paper art centre lithotint Heritage Art 19th-century Art Institute Chicago Otto van Bismarck Prints and Drawings Color lithograph on ivory wove paper lithographic Prince Otto von Bismarck-Sch?nhausen Edmond Guillaume Guillaume Edmond Bismark Prince Otto von Bismarc