Brief Biography-Anton Alexander von Werner was born in Frankfurt in 1843. His family, ennobled in 1701, came from East Prussia. He studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts and the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts with Adolf Schrödter. Two of his contemporaries were Karl Friedrich Lessing and Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. In addition, he visited Paris, where a host of painters such as Meissonier, Ingres, Cogniet and Delacroix influenced his works, and he collaborated with Anselm Friedrich Feuerbach in Rome for almost a year. His most famous painting is The Proclamation of the German Empire at the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. His most famous painting is The Proclamation of the German Empire at the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. After he painted it, he received numerous commissions commemorating the Franco-Prussian War. The Berlin Academy made him a professor in 1873 and elected him director in 1875. Anton Alexander von Werner died in Berlin in 1915 as Germany’s most acclaimed artist.