Death, power and paranoia: #painting that shocked #German society finally returns to #Berlin

#MorsImperator caused a scandal in 1887 amid fears it mocked the German #kaiser – more than 100 years later it is being displayed in a state #museum

#Art #ArtHistory

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Death, power and paranoia: painting that shocked German society finally returns to Berlin Mors Imperator caused a scandal in 1887 amid fears it mocked the German kaiser – more than 100 years later it is being displayed in a state museum

Wrapped in a cloak with ermine fur and wearing a jagged iron crown, a hulking skeleton rests one foot on a globe and knocks over a royal throne with a dramatic flick of its ivory wrist. #MorsImperator #art #painting
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