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Adolph Menzel

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Dim interior with red patterned curtains at a window, a slanted writing desk, a wooden cabinet, and a rug on the floor.

The Artist's Sitting Room in Ritterstrasse

1851

Man playing flute in an ornate candlelit palace room, with musicians and seated listeners in 18th-century dress.

Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci

1850

Painting of a crowd carrying a draped coffin through a city square before a columned neoclassical building, 1848.

Lying in State of the March Fallen

1848

Painting of a woman playing piano by candlelight in an ornate room while another woman in a red shawl turns toward the doorwa

Die Störung

1846

Oil head study of an elderly man with a grey beard and curly grey hair against a warm ochre background.

Kopfstudie

1855

Painting of a studio corner with plaster cast arm and leg, a wooden chest, a draped cloth and a door.

Studio Wall

1852

Painting of two rulers shaking hands on a marble staircase, surrounded by courtiers in ornate uniforms and sashes.

Begegnung Friedrichs II. mit Kaiser Joseph II. in Neiße 1769

1857

Painting of a busy Italian market square with umbrellas, a fountain, a statue, crowds and a horse-drawn cart.

Piazza d’Erbe in Verona

1884

Crowded park scene under chestnut trees with well-dressed figures, children, dogs and parasols in dappled sunlight.

Afternoon in the Tuileries Gardens

1867

Painting of a sunlit interior with a white curtain, wooden chairs, a tall mirror, and a patterned rug on the floor.

The Balcony Room

1845

Painting of willow trees beside a dirt path, with a building site under construction and workers on scaffolding behind them.

Building Site with Willows

1846

Painting of a steam train curving along an embankment past trees and fields, with a distant city skyline under a cloudy sky.

The Berlin-Potsdam Railway

1847

Painting of elegantly dressed figures on a lit theatre stage facing a dark audience, with boxes and red drapery behind.

The Théâtre du Gymnase

1856

Painting of a crowded, gilded ballroom with chandeliers, guests in uniforms and gowns, and servants serving a banquet.

The Dinner at the Ball

1878

Workers in a dim factory hall handle a glowing iron bar at a rolling mill, with overhead belts and machinery.

The Iron Rolling Mill (Modern Cyclopes)

1872

Painting of a woman in a doorway glancing out, with a seated figure at a lamp-lit table in the room behind her.

Living room with the artist's sister

1847

Painting of a falcon diving to attack a pigeon through a cloudy blue sky, with the pigeon falling below.

Falcon Attacking a Pigeon

1844

Painting of men drinking and gathering under a stone vaulted arch in a dim, candlelit tavern cellar.

Der Esterházykeller in Wien

1871

Painting of rear buildings and red roofs above dense trees, with church spires in the hazy distance under a grey sky.

View of rear buildings

1847

Oil study of dark grey and pink-lit clouds over a silhouetted line of trees and a distant church spire.

Cloud Study

1851

Painting of a Corpus Christi procession with clergy in red robes, banners and a canopy, crowds, and an alpine village.

Fronleichnamsprozession in Hofgastein

1880

Dim church interior with worshippers kneeling before an ornate iron gate leading to a candlelit altar.

Frühmesse

1852

Blücher und Wellington bei Belle Alliance

1858

Painting of a brown horse's head with a white blaze on a pale background, by Adolph von Menzel, 1848.

Horse Study

1848

Crowded city boulevard with flags, balcony spectators, and mounted soldiers in a carriage procession under trees.

Departure of King Wilhelm I for the Army, July 31, 1870

1871

Interior of a bedroom with a figure at a desk by an open window overlooking city rooftops and a church spire.

The bedroom of the artist in the Ritterstraße

1847

Painting of officers in winter coats and tricorn hats gathered on a snowy path among birch trees, with horsemen behind.

Frederick the Great Addresses his Generals before the Battle of Leuthen in 1757

1860

Oil painting of tall poplar trees in a garden with a yellow palace facade and red roofs behind under a cloudy sky.

The Palace Garden of Prince Albert

1846

Oil sketch of a harnessed carthorse with a wind-blown mane standing on open ground under a cloudy sky.

Carthorse

1844

Interior scene of people gathered around a round table under an oil lamp, with a red sofa and framed paintings behind them.

Evening Gathering

1846

Painting of a back garden with cabbages, a wooden fence, a weathered shed, and a tree under a cloudy sky.

The Back Garden

1850

Painting of a uniformed rider on a white horse on a country road, approached by a woman and man petitioners beneath a tree.

The Petition

1849