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Adolph von Menzel

Artist in Studio, 1896

Description

Maker

  • Adolph von Menzel, 1815-1905, German

Title

Artist in Studio

Year

1896

Medium

Graphite and charcoal (or black chalk) with stumping on wove paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • graphite,
  • charcoal,
  • chalk

Supports

  • wove paper

Dimensions

22.9 x 31.1 cm (9 x 12 5/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed in UR:Menzel 96

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

28.007

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

From Dürer to Van Gogh

June 5 - October 26, 2008

In the last years of his life, Adolph von Menzel drew people from a close range, focusing on heads, accessories, and human features. This drawing depicts the artist’s studio as a place in which people from different social levels interact. The mysterious man behind the artist (perhaps a rustic country gentleman?) begins a succession of stares: from his own toward the artist to the artist’s toward the yawning woman. To the left and seemingly beyond their concern, a young woman at the height of fashion adjusts her large feathered hat with some difficulty as she looks into an unseen mirror. A comparison is posed between the youth and age of the two elaborately hated women. Von Menzel expertly suggests the subtleties of urban social interaction with the briefest of gestures.

Master Drawing from the Museum and a Private Collection

June 19 - October 27, 1946

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