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Additional authors

1. Kleinstück-Schulman, Carola
2. Getty Research Institute, issuing body.

Description

1. 283 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Uniform title

1. Adolph Menzel. English

Alternative title

1. Adolph Menzel.

Subject

1. Menzel, Adolph, 1815-1905
2. 1800-1899
3. Criticism, interpretation, etc
4. Realism in art
5. Menzel, Adolph, 1815-1905 > Criticism and interpretation
6. Art, German > 19th century

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. "When anecdotes become truth"-instead of an introduction -- Extreme approaches to the appropriation of reality: Menzel's beginnings as a graphic artist -- Des Künstlers Erdenwallen (the artist's earthly pilgrimage) -- Arabesque commercial prints -- Journeyman bricklayer's certificate -- The art of the celebratory address -- The possibilities of the black-and-white medium: Menzel's illustrations for Franz Kugler's Geschichte Friedrichs des grossen -- Menzel's image of Frederick II: a typological affinity -- Frederick's battles and the horror of war -- Nocturnal apparitions -- The conquest of chromatic painting: Menzel's oil sketches -- The oil sketch as a genre -- The handling of unattractive sights and views -- The private nature of the oil sketches -- Menzel and Constable -- Menzel and the Barbizon School -- From oil sketch to history painting -- Menzel as a history painter: the Frederick paintings -- Genre or history painting? -- Motivic borrowings from popular art -- Menzel's Hochkirch picture: the extreme case of a new kind of history painting -- Commissions for additional Frederick paintings -- The failure of the Leuthen painting and the unloved commission for the Coronation picture -- The farewell to history painting: Königgrätz and Paris -- Fantasies from the armory -- Menzel's experience of war -- In Paris: Théâtre du gymnase -- The remodeling of the metropolis and the typology of its inhabitants -- Pictures of Sundays and the everyday -- Menzel's reaction to Parisian plein air painting -- After Paris: the later crowd scenes -- Painted reflections on art theory -- The iron rolling mill: apotheosis of labor or social critique? -- Menzel and court society -- Piazza d'Erbe: importunate chaos and enforced order -- Drawing as physical experience of the self.

Call number

1. JQF 17-634

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-275) and index.

Author

1. Busch, Werner, author.

Title

1. Adolph Menzel : the quest for reality / Werner Busch ; translated by Carola Kleinstück-Schulman.

Publisher

1. Los Angeles : The Getty Research Institute, [2017]

Copyright date

1. ©2017

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-275) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1800-1899

Added author

1. Kleinstück-Schulman, Carola, translator.
2. Getty Research Institute, issuing body.

Translation of:

1. Translation of: Busch, Werner. Adolph Menzel. München : C.H. Beck, [2015] 9783406680908

LCCN

1. 2016034940

ISBN

1. 9781606065174 (hardcover)
2. 1606065173 (hardcover)

Research call number

1. JQF 17-634