
Adolph MenzelAlemanha, 1815–1905Será possível contemplá-la?
Washington, D.C., Estados Unidos
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1834–1839
Lithographs of Brandenburg history
Menzel lithographed with his own hand a series of twelve sheets, “Memorable Events of Brandenburg History”.
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.