Acceding to the throne he dismissed the Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in 1890. He also launched Germany on a new course in foreign affairs that culminated in his support for Austria-Hungary in the crisis of July 1914 that led quickly to the outbreak of the First World War.
This is a rare lithograph of the portrait of the Kaisers family in Imperial Germany just before its fall in the First World War. The print is covered in glass but does show water damage and is creased most noticeably across the Kaisers body. To include the frame size is 35cms x 45cms.