Adolph Menzel

appreciation

During Menzel’s life, his paintings were appreciated by Otto von Bismarck and William I, and after his death they were appropriated for use as electoral posters by Adolf Hitler.

birth

Menzel was born to German parents in Breslau, Prussian Silesia (now Wrocław, Poland), on 8 December 1815.

born in

Kingdom of Prussia

died in

Frederick the Great

The artist [Adolph Menzel] had a deep sympathy for the Prussian king [Frederick the Great]. In one of his letters to Johann Jakob Weber, he said that it was his intention to represent the monarch as a man who was both hated and admired—simply as he was, in other words, as a man of the people.

funeral

After his death in 1905 in Berlin, his funeral arrangements were directed by the Kaiser, who walked behind his coffin.

mention

Gödel, Escher, Bach

random

The remains of the Farallon Plate are the Explorer, Gorda, and Juan de Fuca plates, subducting under the northern part of the North American Plate; the Cocos Plate subducting under Central America; and the Nazca Plate subducting under the South American Plate.

tags

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q164961

Wikimedia

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Adolph_von_Menzel

Wikipedia

Adolph Menzel (Wikipedia) 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, and was the most successful artist of his era in Germany. First known as Adolph Menzel, he was knighted in 1898 and changed his name to Adolph von Menzel.

work

Frederick the Great Playing the Flute at Sanssouci