Ommo Wille - 1 Giclée - Donald Duck - “Ducks Josephus” - 2009

“Ducks Josephus”
Franz Joseph I. (1830 – 1916)

Giclée on cardboard, replica from the original from the DUCKOMENTA, height 38 cm x width 29 cm, framed in an antique-silver wooden frame 4.5 cm wide, outer dimensions height 45 cm x width 35 cm, signature “Ommo” on the back of the replica.

As a young man he is considered a fairy-tale emperor. Later the burden of ruling shapes him. How the monarch finds time for model posing remains a mystery. The range of his titles:

Franz Joseph I.,
by the grace of God Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, King of the Lombards and Venetians, of Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia, Lodomeria and Illyria; King of Jerusalem; Archduke of Austria; Grand Duke of Tuscany and Krakow; Duke of Lorraine, of Salzburg, Steier, Carinthia, Krain and the Bukovina; Grand Prince of Transylvania; Margrave of Moravia; Duke of Upper and Lower Silesia, of Modena, Parma, Piacenza and Quadrasola, of Auschwitz and Zator, of Teschen, Istria, Ragusa and Zara; Sovereign Count of Habsburg and Tyrol, of Kyburg, Görz and Gradisca; Prince of Trient and Brixen; Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia and in Istria; Count of Hohenembs, Feldkirch, Bregenz, Sonnenberg, etc.; Lord of Trieste, of Cattaro and of the Windic March; Grand Voivode of the Grand Voivodship of Serbia.