Portrait Identification: Top Row

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Alfred Krupp

(1812-1887),
steel magnate and munitions manufacturer from Essen

Stefan George

poet
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Christian Dietrich Grabbe

(1801-1836),
experimental dramatist

Hosrt Wessel

(1907-1930),
Nazi party member and Storm Trooper elevated to martyrdom by Joseph Goebbels

George Herwegh

(1817-1875),
political activist and poet

Wiprecht von Groitsch

(ca. 1050-1124),
aristocrat lionized by the Nazis for his settlements in eastern Europe

Count Albrecht von Roon

(1803-1879),
Prussian general and field marshal who successfully reorganized the Prussian army

Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff

(1788-1857),
Romantic lyric poet and novelist

On the Rhine (details)
"Am Rhein"
1982/87. Woodcuts and acrylic on cut and pasted papers
125 3/8 x 151 3/4 in. (317.8 x 385.4 cm)
Inscribed upper center in acrylic: Am Rhein
Purchase, Reba and Dave Williams Gift, 1995
1995.14.45

 

 

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