Kaiserin Augusta Viktoria (Dona)

And an statue

Lovely statue. Where is this?

dona aged quite gracefully, and in imho, she was a perfect image of an empress. unlike her peers (Alix, Alexandra/Mary, Thrya, etc) she did not seem to show, until after WWI, an attitude of pent up anger, dissatisfaction wtih life, or on the otehr extreme, arrogance.

What an elegant lady she was

In all her splendour

I agree with You !!!  And what a thin waistline despite seven children 

A wonderful statue!
No matter what else you think about her pesonality, she did have a real regal look to her, she really looked like "Die Kaiserin," a German Little-mother.

The statue of the Empress (according with the site) is in Berlin at the "Rose Garden"

Time to relook at this lovely portrait. The year was 1908. The tiara by Willhelm II. The painting by Lazlo.

I think this portrait is in Holland. Is this a reproduction ? The colours looks much lighter than the one I saw...

This portrait looks as it always has to me. The grays and blacks couldn't get much darker and still show the detail and textures.

The year was 1908. Compare her image (which based on all other timeline photos and portraits is quite accurate) here in 1908 and below from the family momento for her and Willy's 25th anniversary. I think her very stately and elegant look in the early 20th century had no cause to be tweaked and replaced by a younger pic.

Different to the one I saw in Doorn.

If you ever want your own copy, HK, the Illustrated London News reproduced it (full page) on May 20, 1911. (I think the couple was visiting England) It makes a nice framing copy. 

HK and Eric, you're both partly right. This particular one is located at Doorn but Kaulbach later did a reproduction (head only) at Kasteel Amerongen.  Here's some more info on the painting (one located at Huis Doorn)

The Empress Auguste Victoria 1908
Standing three-quarter length to the left and looking to the right, wearing court dress with the order of the Black Eagle, a cloverleaf tiara with an organza veil behind and holding an open fan in both hands
Oil on canvas, 200 x 130 cm (78 ¾ x 51 in.)
Inscribed lower left: P.A. László. 1908. / NEUES PALAIS
Inscribed upper left: AUGUSTE VICTORIA/ KAISERIN UND KÖNIGIN

Sitters’ Book I, f. 81: Auguste Victoria I.R. 11 Dec. 1908

Huis Doorn, Doorn, The Netherlands


"De László had already painted a head and shoulders portrait of the Empress Auguste Victoria in Potsdam in 1899 at which time he also painted a portrait of her only daughter, Viktoria Luise. According to Rutter, in October 1908, with the intervention of Count Albert Mensdorff, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador in London, and Countess Therese Brockdorff, the Comptroller of the Empress’s Household, de László was commissioned to paint a formal portrait of the German Empress for the wardroom of the recently commissioned battleship Schleswig-Holstein (13,993 tons), to be paid for by subscription by the province of Schleswig-Holstein. Although it is not certain if the present portrait is the one from the Schleswig-Holstein, Rutter describes it as a “big picture”and there is no evidence of de László having painted another large portrait of the Empress. The obsolete Schleswig-Holstein was converted into a tender in 1917, having taken part in the Battle of Jutland in 1916, and an accommodation ship in 1918. It is possible that the portrait was donated to the Empress after these conversions.
 

Writing to his wife on 13 November 1908, de László said he had made three preliminary sketches [untraced] to decide on the colour and composition of the portrait. “I so very much hope that it will be a success,” he wrote, “and will be very very good, for there are many inimical eyes watching my pictures.” While de László was in Potsdam he also painted Princess Viktoria Luise again and made portraits of the Crown Prince Wilhelm (untraced) and the Crown Princess Cecilie. Once these were finished, the Emperor himself consented to sit to de László, fulfilling a long-held ambition for the artist.

....This rather modest house [Doorn] was then filled to bursting-point with treasures, including the present portrait, from the Imperial residences delivered in fifty-nine railway wagons; twenty-eight containing furniture, and of the others, one bearing a car and another a boat....This portrait usually hangs in the dining room at Doorn, the largest room in the house, the other side of the door from a portrait of the Emperor by his favoured portraitist in exile, the Berliner Alfred Schwarz (1867-1951). She seems to turn her back on the portrait on the opposite end wall of the Emperor’s second wife, Hermine, whom he married barely a year and a half after the death of Auguste Victoria.

There is a copy of the present portrait by Anton Kaulbach (1864-1930), head only, at Kasteel Amerongen and an enlarged full-length copy was sold in Munich in 2002.

Vielen Dank!

Thanks for the detailed info! The full page in the London News implies a level of populariity in England that probably sustained a couple more years through VL's wedding.

Yes. Dona was less well known in Britain, and they adored her for being a good wife and mother.