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Germania painting

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Germania is a painting by Philipp Veit created in March 1848 during the Revolutions of 1848. It was meant as Germania painting a symbol of a united democratic Germany and remained a national personification until the end of World War I. Today Germania painting is located in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. .

It was used as an allegoric decoration in the National Assembly in Frankfurt s Paulskirche, where it concealed the organ.