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"Der Chronist unserer Tage"--The Chronicler of our Age," second version, 1925. self-portrait of the artist Heinrich Altherr (1878-1947).  Walter Ueberwasser and Wilhelm Braun, _Der Maler Heinrich Altherr.  Sein Weg und sein Werk_ (Zürich and Leipzig:  Orell Füssli, 1938). Director of the Stuttgart Academy and a leader of the Stuttgart Secession, Altherr was condemned as a "degenerate" artist by the Nazis and returned to his native Switzerland in 1939.  Among the chief themes of Altherr's avowedly prophetic work was the alienation of modern man in a chaotic and dangerous world, reflected in pieces such as this one and "Resignation," "The Homeless," "The Shipwrecked," "Vison," "The Curse," and "The Evening After the Battle."