Adolph von menzel biography of george

A short biography on the life of the German Realism artist, Adolph Menzel, who lived in the 19th to 20th century.

  • A short biography on the life of the German Realism artist, Adolph Menzel, who lived in the 19th to 20th century.
  • Menzel was born in in Breslau, which is now the Polish city known as Wroclau.
  • Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (8 December – 9 February ) was a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings.
  • This is a study for Menzel's Beati possidentes (Happy owners), , George Schäfer collection, Euerbach.
  • Adolph von Menzel was a German realist painter, considered to be the leading German artist of the second half of the 19th century.

    • Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (8 December – 9 February ) was a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings.!

    Adolph Menzel

    German artist (1815–1905)

    Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (8 December 1815 – 9 February 1905) was a German Realist artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings.

    Along with Caspar David Friedrich, he is considered one of the two most prominent German painters of the 19th century,[1] and was the most successful artist of his era in Germany.[2] First known as Adolph Menzel, he was knighted in 1898 and changed his name to Adolph von Menzel.

    His popularity in his native country, owing especially to his history paintings, was such that few of his major paintings left Germany, as many were quickly acquired by museums in Berlin.[3] Menzel's graphic work (and especially his drawings) were more widely disseminated; these, along with informal paintings not initially intended for display, have largely accounted for his posthumous reputation.[2]

    Although he traveled in order to find subjects for his art,