Franz Seraph von Lenbach German, 1836-1904

Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck (1815 -1898) was one of the most prominent European aristocrats and statesmen of the nineteenth century. As Minister-President of Prussia from 1862 to 1890, he engineered the unification of the numerous states of Germany. From 1867 on, he was Chancellor of the North German Confederation. The latter was enlarged in 1871 to the German Empire, as the first Chancellor of which Bismarck served until 1890. He is nicknamed the Iron Chancellor ("der Eiserne Kanzler"). He was made the Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen in 1865, and in 1871 became Prince (Fürst) of Bismarck. In 1890 he was also made the Duke of Lauenburg.