Wilhelminism

Wilhelminism
1890–1918
Neo-Baroque painting of Wilhelm II, German Emperor by Max Koner, 1891
Including	Gründerzeit
Monarch(s)	Wilhelm II
Chronology Weimar culture

The Wilhelmine Period or Wilhelmian era (German: Wilhelminische Zeit, Wilhelminische Epoche) comprises the period of German history between 1890 and 1918, embracing the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II in the German Empire from the resignation of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck until the end of World War I and Wilhelm's abdication during the November Revolution.

It represented an era of creative ferment in the society, politics, culture, art, literature, and architecture of Germany. It also roughly coincided with the late Victorian and Edwardian eras in the British Empire, the Gilded Age in the United States, the Belle Époque in the Third French Republic, and the Silver Age in the Russian Empire.