WORLD HISTORY

NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which painter portrayed the Kaiser’s crown at the place where he has now located the broken chain?
A
Lorenz Clasen
B
Julius Hubner
C
Philip Veit
D
Fredric Sorrieu
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In an earlier allegorical rendering of 1836, Veit had portrayed the Kaiser’s crown at the place where he has now located the broken chain.

Detailed explanation-2: -Germania, painted by Philipp Veit in 1848, was a symbol of the German nation during the revolutions of 1848–49 and in later years.

Detailed explanation-3: -The crown on allegory of ‘Germania’ signifies Heroism.

Detailed explanation-4: -The picture depicted Germania as a fallen woman with the crown and standard thrown aside as a symbol of the lost hope of the German people’s hopes to be united into one nation. Those hopes were lost because King Friedrich Willhelm IV of Prussia rejected their demand for unification in 1848.

Detailed explanation-5: -Germania (/dʒərˈmeɪniə/; Latin: [ɡɛrˈmaːnia]) is the personification of the German nation or the Germans as a whole. Like many other national personification symbols, she appeared first during the Roman Era.

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