A solo exhibition of portraits by Franz von Lenbach focuses on the shifting relationship of painting to photography, as well as changing notions of celebrity, from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. Lenbach enjoyed international success as a portraitist, painting some of the most celebrated European figures of his day. He first established himself as a successful portraitist in Vienna, painting figures such as composer Richard Wagner and Emperor Francis Joseph I. Later in Munich he painted a large number of portraits of Otto von Bismarck, the “Iron Chancellor,” as well as Field Marshal Helmuth Graf von Moltke, and Pope Leo XIII.

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