Germania is a painting by Philipp Veit(1793-1877) created in March 1848. It was used as an allegoric decoration in the National Assembly in the Frankfurt's Paulskirche, where it concealed the organ. Today it is in the German national museum, in Nuremberg, one of Germany's most famous collections of art and culture. It was meant as a symbol of a united democratic Germany and remained a national personification until the end of World War I. Philipp Veit (1793—1877) was a German Romantic painter. ... 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... An allegory (from Greek αλλος, allos, other, and αγοÏευειν, agoreuein, to speak in public) is a figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than and in addition to the literal. ... The National Assembly is the name of either a legislature, or the lower house of a bicameral legislature in some countries. ... Frankfurt am Main? [ˈfraÅ‹kfÊŠrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany. ... Nuremberg coat of arms Location of Nuremberg Nuremberg (German: Nürnberg) is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. ... Britannia arm-in-arm with Uncle Sam symbolizes the British-American alliance in World War I. A national personification is an anthropomorphization of a nation; it can appear in both editorial cartoons and propaganda. ... World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ...
Original painting
Frankfurt Parliament decorated with the painting in 1848/49 (coloured, contemporary engraving)
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The portrait is of Hern Blumensaat, the king's high official in the military Kabinett and we believe it was painted in 1915 because it came along with a wonderful state portrait in the frame of the Order of the Black Eagle that was presented to him directly from Kaiser Wilhelm, himself.
Here in all her glory is Germania, symbol of Germanys proud past; from Hermanns victory, to the march in review of the legions of the Wehrmacht.
The beautiful depiction of Germania is very impressive as she holds aloft the wreathed symbol of this organization.
Germania was the ancient name for the area inhabited by the Germanic tribes, as described by the Roman Historian Tacitus in his book, Germania.
In Hirschberger's The Seduction of Germania, Germania is depicted as Eve in the Garden of Eden, who has presumably given a can of Zyklon B gas to Adam, dressed in SS Uniform at the instigation of the snake, undoubtedly symbolizing Hitler.
The image in the painting is based on traditional Christian icons and Medieval painting of "The Temptation of Adam," the story of "original sin" in the Christian Bible, when Eve was seduced by the serpent to give Adam the apple.
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