Scandal! Hermione von Preuschen and the “Mors Imperator”
Hermione von Preuschen’s Mors Imperator provoked controversy in 1887. The exhibition returns to the painting and the circumstances that made its reception so charged.
Culture Berlin
Nineteenth-century art fills a temple-like building on Museum Island.

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