Angela Merkel's Official Portrait Unveiled After Five-Year Delay

The portrait, painted by Jeremy Kiras, was unveiled at Berlin's Bode Museum and will later hang in the German Chancellery.

• The portrait of former Chancellor Angela Merkel was unveiled Tuesday at the Bode Museum in Berlin, nearly five years after she left office.
• The painting by artist Jeremy Kiras will be on public display at the museum for three months before being moved to the Chancellery.
• Merkel said in an interview with Die Zeit that it is "strange to gradually become part of history."
• The official portrait of Merkel's successor, Olaf Scholz, has not yet been commissioned.