Adolf Menzel 1815-1905
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Wikipedia entry for Adolf Menzel
ADOLF MENZEL.–During his lifetime Menzel’s art was, perhaps, regarded as belonging too exclusively to Brandenburg and Prussia, and he was exalted to high honours for dynastic reasons; yet he is and remains one of the most conscientious of graphic artists and realists in the second half of the nineteenth century. His free and picturesque sketches in oils have maintained his reputation among a generation of impressionists, better than the finished historical paintings by which he won widespread fame.