The Artist's Sitting Room in Ritterstrasse – (Adolph Von Menzel) Previous Next


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Date: 1851

Size: 32 x 27 cm

Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)

Technique: Oil On Board

This intimate, evocative interior view belongs to a group of five paintings in which Menzel studied the effects of light in simply furnished spaces he occupied in Berlin between 1845 and 1851. They are entirely characteristic of his unwavering eye for quotidian detail, yet the artist considered such works experiments and he never exhibited them. Instead, his fame rested on historicizing costume pieces and trenchant scenes of contemporary life in the German capital.

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