Emil Doerstling’s painting, “Preußisches Liebesglück” (Prussian Happy Love) from 1890 showing Gustav Sabac el Cher and his fiancée Gertrud Perlig. They married in 1901.

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1. More info about the painting and its context [here](https://supernaut.info/2016/10/deutsches-historisches-museum-emil-doerstling-preussisches-liebesglueck).

2. This looks like a Renoir.

3. I’m guessing it raised some eyebrows at the time.

4. https://blackcentraleurope.com/sources/1850-1914/a-prussian-love-story/

   > _He and his white wife were patriotic Germans, members of the Stahlhelm whose two sons went on to fight for the Wehrmacht in the Second World War, and they were likely deeply disappointed when the national revival promised by the Nazis had no room for them. In 1933 their business lost its customers, forcing them to move back to Berlin. They opened a café there but soon had to close. Gustav died in 1934 and Gertrud in 1935._

   Predictably tragic once the Nazis got into power, but it’s interesting their sons were able to serve in the Nazi Wehrmacht, I guess they must have been light skinned enough to pass all the inevitable racial scrutiny?

   (I know the Wehrmacht had black auxiliaries in Africa, but this would be different regular service I assume)

5. Kahba

6. That’s a very young Merkel.