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Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel 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.
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culture · German artist (1815–1905) · painter · illustrator · printmaker · lithographer · also Adolph von Menzel, Adolph Menzel, Adolf Friedrich Erdmann Menzel, Adolf Mentsel, Adolʹf Ment︠s︡elʹ, Adolphe Menzel
Born 8 December 1815 · Died 9 February 1905 · Q164961
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Germany's Culture Minister Monika Gruetter returned Menzel's Interior of a Gothic Church to the heirs of Elsa Cohen who, persecuted by the Nazis because Jewish, sold it to Hitler's art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt in 1938
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The Menzel pastel "Lady with a Red Blouse" was restituted to the heirs of Erna Felicia and Hans Lachmann-Mosse
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The Dutch Limbach Commission refused a restitution request for the Menzel painting "A Weekday in Paris" which had belonged to the Jewish banker Georges Behrens
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The Menzel's Stehende Rüstungen (1886) ("Standing Suits of Armour" or "Armoury Fantasy") was restituted by the Albertina Museum in Vienna to the heirs of Adele Pächter, who was murdered at the Theresienstadt concentrati
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And donated it to the Foundation in 1940
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Died 1905-02-09.
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In Berlin, his funeral arrangements were directed by the Kaiser, who walked behind his coffin
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And changed his name to Adolph von Menzel
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Became the first painter to be admitted to the Order of the Black Eagle; by virtue of receiving the Order, Menzel was raised to the nobility, becoming "Adolph von Menzel"
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Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1874).
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On the battlefields of the Austro-Prussian War are unsparing in their realism, and have been described by art historian Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher as "unique in German art of the time
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An album of pen-and-ink drawings reproduced on stone, to illustrate Goethe's little poem, Kunstlers Erdenwallen
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Studied briefly at the Berlin Academy of Art, where he drew from plaster casts and ancient sculptures; thereafter Menzel was self-taught
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The family moved to Berlin, and in 1832 Adolph was forced to take over the lithographic business on the death of his father
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Studied at Academy of Arts, Berlin (1830).
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Born 1815-12-08.
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