Johann or Hans Georg von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1583 in Boitzenburger Land – 28 April 1641, in Dresden) was a German Field Marshal. At different times during the Thirty Years’ War, he was a Field Marshal for the Holy Roman Empire and its opponent the Electorate of Saxony. He also pursued various diplomatic tasks.
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Size 15 x 11 cms
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Hammermeister began his stage career as an opera singer in 1823 at the Schwerin Court Theater . From 1824 to 1828 he was at the Braunschweig Court Theater . In 1828 he went to the then newly formed Hoftheater Leipzig . Here he became known in operas composed by Heinrich Marschner , initially in 1828 in The Vampyr . In Marschner’s opera Der Templer and der Jüdin , premiered in 1829 , Hammermeister sang the Templar, a role that Marschner had written for him. Here Richard Wagner also heard him , who was impressed by him. From 1832 to 1835 he worked at the Royal Opera in Berlin, here too, Marschner’s Templar was performed with him in the leading role. From 1835 to 1840 Hammermeister was engaged at the Hamburg City Theater.
Artist: Kitzeron
Size 36 x 25 cms
Price £28.00
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Charles the Fat 839-888, also known as Charles III, was the Carolingian Emperor from 881 to 888. The youngest son of Louis the German and Hemma, Charles was a great-grandson of Charlemagne and was the last Carolingian to rule over a united empire.
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Albert I of 1255 –1308 was King of the Romans and Duke of Austria, the eldest son of German King Rudolph I of Habsburg and his first wife Gertrude of Hohenburg.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Klupfel
Size 15 x 12 cms
Price £18.00
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John Frederick ( Johann Friedrich; 1625, Herzberg am Harz – 18 December 1679, Augsburg) was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruled over thePrincipality of Calenberg, a subdivision of the duchy, from 1665 until his death.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: 1668
Size 22 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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Melchior Graf von Gleichen und Hatzfeldt was an Imperial Field Marshal. He fought in the Thirty Years’ War first under Albrecht von Wallenstein and Matthias Gallas, then received an independent command in Westphalia.
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Albert I of Habsburg, the eldest son of King Rudolf I of Germany and his first wife Gertrude of Hohenberg, was a Duke of Austria and Styria from 1282 and King of Germany from 1298 until his assassination.
Artist: J.Blaschke
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Size 8 x 14.5 cms
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Born in Sulzbach as the eldest son of Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach and Hedwig of Holstein-Gottorp. He succeeded his father in August 1632, at the age of 10. Christian Augustus was a tolerant ruler. He granted his citizens the right to choose their Christian denomination and introduced the Simultaneum, whereby churches had both Protestant and Catholic services. In 1666 he permitted Jews to settle in the Duchy of Sulzbach and, due to his interest in mysticism and the Kabbalah, allowed a Hebrew print-shop. Under his rule, Sulzbach also became an intellectual center and the site of a regionally significant printing industry.
Size 8.5 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
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Duke Eberhard was the tenth Duke of Württemberg, from 1692 until 1733
For his time he was a very tolerant ruler, commonly noted by modern scholars as “enlightened.
Size 9 x 14 cms
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Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Bohemia and Hungary; and Archduchess of Austria by her marriage to Emperor Charles VI. She was renowned for her delicate beauty and also for being the mother of Empress Maria Theresa.
Size 9.5 x 14.5 cms
Price £28.00
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