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| Keywords: 1890 Bismarcks Ruecktritt.jpg Dropping the Pilot Caricature by Sir John Tenniel 1820-1914 first published in the British magazine Punch March 1890 Showing German Emperor Wilhelm II and the leaving Chancellor Otto von Bismarck The reference to Bismarck as a pilot comes from an earlier cartoon from the Puck magazine from Saint Louis Missouri For that magazine the cartoonist Joseph Keppler made one titled The Champion Pilot of the age featuring Bismarck on a ship having brought it out to the high seas In the background the cartoonist depicted the French ship of state in distress This symbolized Bismarck's accomplishment of forming the German Kaiserreich by means of the Franco-Prussian War source Satire on Stone The Political Cartoons of Joseph Keppler Der Lotse geht von Bord Karikatur von Sir John Teniel abgedruckt im englischen Magazin Punch Oben Kaiser Wilhelm II Reichskanzler Otto von Bismarck muss das Schiff verlassen Creator John Tenniel PD-old-100 Otto von Bismarck in 1890 54 Punch magazine cartoons 1890 cartoons Gangways watercraft Caricatures of Otto von Bismarck John Tenniel | ||||
