Why it matters
Germania, the woman who stands for Germany, hung in St. Paul's Church in Frankfurt while the Frankfurt National Assembly, the first all-German parliament, met there. After the Assembly was violently ended in May 1849, the painting was taken down.
Did you know?
- It was probably created in March 1848.
- It moved to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg in 1867.
- It is one of the best-known images of Germania.
Based on the Wikipedia article Germania (St. Paul's Church, Frankfurt am Main) (CC BY-SA 4.0).