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Adolph von Menzel
A Paris Day (mk09)
1869
Oil on canvas,50 x 71 cm
Dusseldorf,Funstmuseum Dusseldorf
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Adolph von Menzel
Study of Clouds (nn02)
1851
Oil on canvas,11 x 15 3/4'' Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz Nationalgalerie,Berlin (West)
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Adolph von Menzel
Afternoon in the Tuileries Garden (nn02)
1867
Oil on canvas,19 1/4 x 27 9/16'' Staatliche Kunstsammlungen,Gemaldegalerie Neue Meister,Dresden
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Adolph von Menzel
The Berlin-Potsdam Railway
mk87
1847
Oil on canvas
43x52cm
Berlin,Nationalgalerie,Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz
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Adolph von Menzel
A Paris Day
mk87
1869
Oil on canvas
50x71cm
Dusseldorf,Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf
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Adolph von Menzel
The Artist-s Sisters
mk87
1847
Oil on canvas
46.1x31.6cm
Munich,Neue Pinakothek
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Adolph von Menzel
Das Eisenwalzwerk,Ausschnitt:Einschieben des Blockes in das Walzwerk
mk92
1875
Berlin,
Nationalgalerie
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Adolph von Menzel
The Balcony Room
mk138
1845
Oil on carboard
58x47cm
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Adolph von Menzel
The Artist-s Bedroom in the Ritterstrabe
mk138
1847
Oil on cardboard
56x46cm
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Adolph von Menzel
Rear Courtyard and House
mk138
1844
Oil on canvas
44.5x61.5cm
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Adolph von Menzel
Plaster Casts on the Studio Wall
mk138
1852
Oil on paper
Laid on wood
61x44cm
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Adolph von Menzel
Euine Study,Recumbent Head in Harness
mk138
1848
Oil on paper,Laid on cardboard
64.2x50cm
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Adolph von Menzel
The Theatre du Gymnase
mk138
1856
Oil on canvas
46x62cm
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Adolph von Menzel
The Flute concert of Frederick the Great at Sanssouci
mk138
1850-52
Oil on canvas
142x205cm
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Adolph von Menzel
Frederick the Great addresses his Generals before the Battle of Leuthen
mk138
1859-61
Oil on canvas
318x424cm
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Adolph von Menzel
The Berlin-Potsdam Railway
mk138
1847
Oil on canvas
42x52cm
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Adolph von Menzel
Building Site with Meadow
mk138
1846
Oil on paper,Laid on cardboard
25x40cm
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Adolph von Menzel
The Iro-Rolling Mill
mk138
1872-75
Oil on canvas
158x254cm
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Adolph von Menzel
Ball Supper
mk138
1878
Oil on canvas
71x90cm
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Adolph von Menzel
Rear Counryard and House
mk141
1844
Oil on canvas
44.5x61.5cm
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1815-1905
German
Adolph von Menzel Gallery
His father was the headmaster of a school for girls, and intended to educate his son as a professor; but he would not thwart his taste for art. Left an orphan in 1832, Menzel had to maintain his family. In 1833 Sachse of Berlin published his first work, an album of pen-and-ink drawings reproduced on stone, to illustrate Goethe's little poem, Kunstlers Erdenwallen. He executed lithographs in the same manner to illustrate Denkw??rdigkeiten aus der brandenburgisch-preussischen Geschichte; The Five Senses and The Prayer, as well as diplomas for various corporations and societies.
From 1839 to 1842 he produced 400 drawings, largely introducing to Germany the technique of wood engraving, to illustrate the Geschichte Friedrichs des Grossen (History of Frederick the Great) by Franz Kugler. He subsequently brought out Friedrichs der Grossen Armee in ihrer Uniformirung (The Uniforms of the Army under Frederick the Great), Soldaten Friedrichs der Grossen (The Soldiers of Frederick the Great); and finally, by order of the king Frederick William IV, he illustrated the works of Frederick the Great, Illustrationen zu den Werken Friedricks des Grossen (1843-1849).
By these works Menzel established his claim to be considered one of the first, if not actually the first, of the illustrators of his day in his own line.
Pencil drawing by Menzel, 1891.Meanwhile Menzel had set himself to study unaided the art of painting, and he soon produced a great number and variety of pictures, always showing keen observation and honest workmanship in subjects dealing with the life and achievements of Frederick the Great, and scenes of everyday life, such as In the Tuileries, The Ball Supper, and At Confession. Among the most important of these works are The Forge (1875) and The Market-place at Verona. Invited to paint The Coronation of William I at Koenigsberg, he produced an exact representation of the ceremony without regard to the traditions of official painting.
In Germany he received many honors, and was the first painter to be given the Order of the Black Eagle in 1898 which included a title of nobility, becoming von Menzel.
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