The 8 Artworks of Adolph Von Menzel

Adolph Menzel, a renowned German painter of the 19th century, created The Flute Concert at Sanssouci, an oil on canvas masterpiece in 1852. This captivating painting is now housed...

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The subject matter of Adolph von Menzel’s small drawing could hardly be more low-key and miserable. The houses and roofs in this empty narrow alley are all at odd angles and the sunlight hardly finds its way in. Yet the contrast between the downbeat theme and the amazingly realistic portrayal makes ...

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Wit, spirit, and Prussian discipline, incorruptible judgment, unparalleled industriousness, and exceptional talent all came together in the genius of Adolph von Menzel (1815-1905), one of the most impressive, productive and likeable artists of the century. He created paintings for an epoch whose int...

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In 1846/7, Menzel painted a view of his bedroom, located at Ritterstrasse 43 in Berlin. Although covered by a hastily thrown thin quilt, the bed nevertheless remains a very prominent feature dominating the foreground in front of a brightly-lit window. Embedded in the seemingly coincidental compositi...

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Menzel was renowned during his lifetime and celebrated especially for scenes illustrating life at the royal court of Prussia. The two works by him included in this exhibition, however, belong to the now-famous body of the artist’s private, unexhibited works, which the public only came to know after ...

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Menzel travelled on 16 July 1866 to significant sites of the six-week Austro-Prussian War, which had broken out one month previously. He hoped ‘to get at least a whiff of the war’, or so he wrote in a letter dated 31 July 1866 to Heinrich Paul while travelling back to Berlin. For three days, Menzel ...

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Throughout his long life, Adolph Menzel drew continuously in sketchbooks, and these drawings demonstrate his remarkable powers of observation, as well as his eye for the unexpected and the unusual. Whether employing compositions that emphasized a fragment at extreme proximity or the whole object at ...

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