Werner Tübke
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Werner Tübke was a German painter, best known for his monumental Peasants' War Panorama located in Bad Frankenhausen
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, which took place from 1524 to 1525.
Bad Frankenhausen
Bad Frankenhausen is a spa town in the German state of Thuringia. It is located at the southern slope of the Kyffhäuser mountain range, on an artificial arm of the Wipper river, a tributary of the Saale. Because of the nearby Kyffhäuser monument dedicated to Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, it is...
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Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany
Tübke's opus magnum, Early Bourgeois Revolution in Germany, has a size of 14 by 123 meters. It depicts a scene from the German Peasants' WarGerman Peasants' War
The German Peasants' War or Great Peasants' Revolt was a widespread popular revolt in the German-speaking areas of Central Europe, 1524–1526. At its height in the spring and summer of 1525, the conflict involved an estimated 300,000 peasants: contemporary estimates put the dead at 100,000...
, which took place from 1524 to 1525.