Adolph Menzel: 5 works

'Painting of an old man in half-length figure from Adolph Menzel.'

'In 1872 Adolf von Menzel spent several weeks in the vast smelting works in Königshütte, Upper Silesia, watching and recording German workers go about the hot, gritty work of iron production. While there he produced numerous studies for his painting The Iron Rolling Mill of 1875, which was one of the first depictions of the modern industrial worker.'

'Called "the greatest living master" by Edgar Degas, Adolph von Menzel was the leading German artist of the second half of the 19th century. A proponent of Realism who also anticipated the effects of French Impressionism, Menzel recorded life in Berlin, capturing the cosmopolitan metropolis.'

'Menzel's sketchbooks also record his sustained interest in the architecture of the Baroque and Rococo epochs.'

'The subject matter of Adolph von Menzel's small drawing could hardly be more low-key and miserable.'