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Adolf Menzel - A Quest for Reality (Hardcover)
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Adolf Menzel - A Quest for Reality (Hardcover)
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Adolph Menzel (1815-1905) is widely regarded as the epitome of
realist art. From the very beginning of his career, he captured the
beauty and horror of reality with unflinching precision, and he was
a consummate master of atmosphere. A man of very short stature,
Menzel was excluded from many aspects of life, and so his struggle
with reality was also a struggle to assert himself. Werner Busch's
comprehensive new study sheds light on the biographical and
historical events that shaped Menzel's work and the course it took.
Menzel's paintings of the life of Frederick the Great still
dominate our image of the monarch. Their modern perspective,
however, neither glorified the king nor found favor with the
Prussian royal family. After witnessing the horror of war in the
aftermath of the Battle of Koniggratz, Menzel abandoned history
painting. In Paris, he discovered the energy and bustle of the
heroless metropolis; for the remainder of his career, he devoted
himself to painting scenes of contemporary life. In this lavishly
illustrated book, Werner Busch examines the artist's multifaceted
oeuvre and brings the long nineteenth century into aesthetic focus.
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