A Museum in Berlin Displays a Portrait of Angela Merkel Before Being Assigned to the Chancellery
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Berlin, 16 Jul (EFE).- A portrait of former chancellor Angela Merkel, who led the successive German governments between 2005 and 2021, is exhibited at the Bode Museum in Berlin, one of the pinacotecas of the famous museum island of the German capital, before this autumn it is incorporated into the collection of the Federal Chancellery.Currently occupied by Friedrich Merz (like the Christian Democratic Merkel), the headquarters of the Chancellery…
A portrait of former chancellor Angela Merkel, who led the successive German governments between 2005 and 2021, is exhibited at the Bode Museum in Berlin, one of the pinacotecas of the famous museum island of the German capital, before this fall is incorporated into the collection of the Federal Chancellery.
Art historian Michael Diers considers the new portrait of Angela Merkel a failure both aesthetically and politically. Above all, it demonstrates why the era of painted portraits of chancellors is over.
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