Adolph Menzel, 1815-1905 : between romanticism and impressionism / edited by Claude Keisch, Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher.

"Famous across Europe and America, recipient of the highest possible honours in Germany including the order of the Black Eagle and elevation to nobility, admired by Degas as 'the greatest living master', Adolph Menzel was perhaps the greatest German painter of the late nineteenth cent...

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Main Author: Menzel, Adolph, 1815-1905.
Corporate Authors: Musée d'Orsay., National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Alte Nationalgalerie (Germany)
Other Authors: Keisch, Claude., Riemann-Reyher, Marie Ursula.
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, in association with National Gallery of Art, Washington, [1996]
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Table of Contents:
  • Menzel seen from America / Philip Conisbee
  • Menzel and Berlin: a photographic record
  • Biography of Adolph Menzel / Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher
  • Berlin in Menzel's time / Peter Paret
  • Menzel junctures disjunctures / Claude Keisch
  • Menzel's universality / Werner Hofmann
  • Adolph Menzel: readings between nationalism and modernity / Françoise Forster-Hahn
  • Menzel and French painting of his time: two conceptions of the historical genre / Thomas W. Gaehtgens
  • The draughtsman: and master of the glance / Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher
  • Menzel's modernity / Peter-Klaus Schuster.