Bundestag President Julia Klöckner opens the Kokoschka exhibition with reference to Angela Merkel's presence

The President of the Bundestag, Julia Klöckner, set the tone right at the beginning by ironically remarking: There were more than 50 press registrations for this evening and there was obviously great interest in the painter Oskar Kokoschka. It was clear that the extremely expectant audience was less interested in the exhibition, which was otherwise very worth seeing and also open to the public, and that the Bundestag Art Forum had arranged around Oskar Kokoschka's Adenauer portrait and Andy Warhol's portrait of Willy Brandt. Rather, the curiosity was primarily directed at the former Federal Chancellor. D. Angela Merkel, who would speak to the guests. She had her own experience with the genre of ruler portrait, which in democratic times is called chancellor portrait, when she recently sat as a model for the young French-German painter Jérémie Queyras.