![]() ![]() ![]() This portrait of two lovers was created by the German artist Emil Doerstling in 1890 during the heyday of the Wilhelminean Empire. It depicts a man in Prussian military uniform, impeccably dressed, with his arm around a red-haired young woman resting happily in his embrace. Below, co-editor Martin Klimke describes a significant-and still remarkable-relic of this pre-WWI period.įor more than ten years now, visitors to the German Historical Museum in Berlin have paused in amazement before a painting unlike any other in the museum’s collection. ![]() The contributors to Germany and the Black Diaspora: Points of Contact, 1250-1914, published last month, seek to illuminate these intersections and share popular sentiments of the time. Eight centuries of German and African interactions up until World War I are often glossed over in historical literature. ![]()
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