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Adolph von Menzel
Storm on Tempelhof Mountain
Date 1846(1846)
Medium Oil on paper on board
Dimensions Height: 31 cm (12.2 in). Width: 47 cm (18.5 in).
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Adolph von Menzel
Sister Emily Sleeping
Date c. 1848(1848)
Medium Oil on paper and canvas
Dimensions Height: 47 cm (18.5 in). Width: 60 cm (23.6 in).
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Adolph von Menzel
painted
1878. Oil on canvas, 71x90 cn
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Adolph von Menzel
Weekday in Paris
1869(1869)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 48,4 x 69,5 cm
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Adolph von Menzel
Gewitter am Tempelhofer Berg
Date 1846(1846)
Medium Oil on paper
Dimensions 31 x 47 cm
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Adolph von Menzel
Fronleichnamsprozession in Hofgastein
Date 1880(1880)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 51,3 x 70,2 cm
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Adolph von Menzel
Treppenflur bei Nachtbeleuchtung
Date 1848(1848)
Medium Oil on paper mounted on cardboard
Dimensions 36 x 21.5 cm (14.2 x 8.5 in)
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Adolph von Menzel
Eisenwalzwerk
between 1872(1872) and 1875(1875)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 158 x 254 cm
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Adolph von Menzel
Kronung Konig Wilhelms I
1861(1861)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 74.5 x 100 cm (29.3 x 39.4 in)
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Adolph von Menzel
Folk theatre in Tyrol
1859(1859)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 37,5 x 55 cm
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Adolph von Menzel
Storm on Tempelhof Mountain
1846(1846)
Medium Oil on paper on board
Dimensions Height: 31 cm (12.2 in). Width: 47 cm (18.5 in).
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Adolph von Menzel
Sister Emily Sleeping
1848(1848)
Medium Oil on paper and canvas
Dimensions Height: 47 cm (18.5 in). Width: 60 cm (23.6 in).
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Adolph von Menzel
Abreise Konig Wilhelms I
Oil on canvas
Dimensions 63 x 78 cm
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Adolph von Menzel
Menzel's sister Emilie, sleeping
c. 1848(1848)
Medium oil on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions 46.8 x 60 cm (18.4 x 23.6 in)
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Adolph von Menzel
Eisenwalzwerk
between 1872(1872) and 1875(1875)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 158 x 254 cm
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Adolph von Menzel
Treppenflur bei Nachtbeleuchtung
1848(1848)
Medium oil on paper mounted on cardboard
Dimensions 36 X 21.5 cm (14.2 X 8.5 in)
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Adolph von Menzel
Studio Interior with Casts
1852(1852)
Medium Oil on paper mounted on board
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Adolph von Menzel
Fronleichnamsprozession in Hofgastein
1880(1880)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 51,3 X 70,2 cm
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Adolph von Menzel
Im Opernhaus
1862
Oil on paper on cardboard, 51.5 x 43.2 cm
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Adolph von Menzel
The Back Garden
between 1850(1850) and 1860(1860)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 48.3 x 68.6 cm (19 x 27 in)
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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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