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Hermione von Preuschen, Mors Imperator (detail), 1887

Alte Nationalgalerie · Mitte (Museum Island)

Scandal! Hermione von Preuschen and the “Mors Imperator”

Now showing22 March 2026 – 15 November 2026·Ticketed — see website

The painter, writer and traveller whose 1887 painting Mors Imperator, rejected by the Berlin Academy of Arts, made her famous overnight.

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