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ANTON ALEXANDER VON WERNER (1843– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 523 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDER VON See also:WERNER (1843– )  , See also:German painter, was See also:born at See also:Frankfort-on-the-See also:Oder, on the 9th of May 1843 . He first studied See also:painting at the See also:Berlin See also:Academy, pursued his studies at Carlsruhe, and, having won a travelling scholarship upon the See also:exhibition of his See also:early See also:works, he visited See also:Paris in 1867, and afterwards See also:Italy, where he remained for some See also:time . On his return he received several See also:state commissions, and on the out-break of the Franco-Prussian See also:War in 1870 he was sent with the See also:staff of the third See also:corps d'armee, and stayed in See also:France. till the See also:close of the See also:campaign . In 1873 he was appointed See also:professor at the Berlin Academy, of which he afterwards became director . Among his more important works must be named " The See also:Capitulation of See also:Sedan," " See also:Proclamation of the German See also:Empire at See also:Versailles," " See also:Moltke before Paris," " Moltke at Versailles," " The See also:Meeting of See also:Bismarck and See also:Napoleon III.," " See also:Christ and the See also:Tribute See also:Money," " See also:William I. visiting the Tombs," " The See also:Congress of Berlin," and some decorations executed in See also:mosaic for the Triumphal See also:Arch at Berlin . Von See also:Werner's See also:work is chiefly interesting for the historic value of his pictures of the events of the Franco-German War . See Kunst See also:fur Allle, vol. i.; Knackfuss, Kiinstler-lbionographieen, No . 9 .

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