Adolph MenzelDeutschland, 1815–1905Hamlet en Polonius
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- Quelle
- Sammlungsdaten des Museums selbst
Angaben
- Inventarnummer
- RP-P-1948-407
What it shows
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- Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: the museum's own open data · abgerufen vor 6 Tagen
- Bild: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam — public domain
Derweil im Leben von Adolph Menzel
Das ganze Leben1830
The family moves to Berlin
The Menzels moved from Breslau to Berlin, the city where the artist would spend most of his life.
1833
His father dies; Adolph becomes the breadwinner
On his father's death the young Menzel became the family's breadwinner and took any work going, drawing dinner menus and invitation cards; by other accounts his father died in 1832, when the son took over the lithographic business.
1833
The album “An Artist's Life” brings first renown
Menzel first became known for a notebook of pen drawings, “An Artist's Life” (by other accounts an album illustrating a poem by Goethe, published by Louis Friedrich Sachse). He attended the Berlin Academy of Art for only six months and was otherwise almost entirely self-taught.
1839–1842
400 drawings for the “History of Frederick the Great”
For Franz Kugler's book Menzel produced 400 drawings, largely introducing the technique of wood engraving to Germany; with the Frederick books that followed, they made him one of the first, if not the first, illustrator of his day.
1840s
Begins painting from life
A whole series of landscapes and portraits painted from life appeared; they would first be shown only at the 1906 exhibition at the National Gallery in Berlin, and they sharply changed the accepted view of his art.
9. Februar 1905
Died
