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Oil on canvas and stretcher, signed and dated "Hans Volkmer 1919" on the upper right. Delicately painted knee-length portrait of the General and Minister in field-grey unifom, his coat draped over his shoulders, his hands resting on his sabre. On his neck and breast he wears, among others, the Commander’s Cross of the Military Order of Max Joseph, the cross and star of the Grand Cross with Swords of the Bavarian Military Merit Order, the neck cross of the Order of the Red Eagle 2nd Class with Swords and Crown (concealed by the coat), the Imperial Austrian Order of the Iron Crown with War Decoration, an orders clasp with at least eight orders, among them the Knight’s Cross of the Military Order of Max Joseph, the Iron Cross 1914 1st Class and further decorations partly concealed by the coat. Dimensions of painting 121 x 76.5 cm. In a beautiful gilt stucco frame with freeze of bundled laurel and acanthus leaves. Dimensions of frame 157.5 x 113.5 cm. Hans Volkmer: Munich portrait and genre painter. Philipp von Hellingrath (1862 – 1939) became Major General in 1912 as Commander of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade; in 1914, as Lieutenant General, he was deputy to the Bavarian Authorised Military Representative in the Great Headquarters; in 1915 he took over the command of the Cavalry Division and successfully led the cavalry in the East, for which he received the Knight’s Cross in April 1915 and the Commander’s Cross of the Military Order of Max Joseph in August 1916. From December 1916 until the end of World War I, he was Bavarian Minister of War, was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle 2nd Class with Crown and Swords by Emperor Wilhelm II in February 1918 and in May 1918 was promoted to General of the Cavalry by King Ludwig III. Condition: I - II