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Adolph MenzelThe Artist’s Foot, 1876oil on paper,38,5 x 33,5 cmStaatliche Museen zu Berlin, NationalgalerieProperty of Verein der Freunde der NationalgaleriePhoto: Karin März Photo courtesy of Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung
Adolph Menzel
The Artist's Foot, 1876
oil on paper,
38,5 x 33,5 cm
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie
Property of Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie
Photo: Karin März
Photo courtesy of Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung
Adolph Menzel: Radically Real
MUNICH, GERMANY  •  Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung  •  16 May - 31 August 2008
 

Some 230 works, including 70 paintings, gouaches and watercolours, about 20 photographs, and a large number of his best drawings illustrate the art of Adolph Menzel (1815-1905).

As the title Radically Real suggests, the show aims to investigate how Menzel saw reality, and how he directed it by means of his sketches. Five sections attempt to elucidate this process. First, Menzel's personal environment; portraits of family and friends characterize his social environment. Then, the obsessive draughtsman is introduced, who is not held back by banalities of daily life, such as an unmade bed or an abandoned back yard, nor by the unusual, such as a look into a urinal or an opened grave. As indicated by his sketchbooks, travels also played a major role in Menzel's life. Gathered here into one section are his recordings during journeys from Berlin to Bavaria, Salzburg and across the Alps towards Verona. Moreover, in honour of Munich's 850th birthday this year, the city receives a noble homage as seen through the eyes of the Berlin artist.

In the chapter "Teatrum Mundi" one leafs through Menzel's world theatre, both sacred and profane. The artist reveals his social environment through festive happenings at opera and ball, but also counts the baroque scenography of church interiors, the intimate prayer or festive processions among his many interests.



Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung Web Site


Contact: Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung
Theatinerstrasse 8
Munich
D-80333
Tel: (49) 89 22 44 12

Neue Pinakothek : European painting and sculpture of the 18th and 19th centuries
MUNICH, GERMANY  •  Neue Pinakothek  •  on-going
 
 
The heart of the collection of around 4500 paintings and 300 sculptures is the private collection of Ludwig I, which is dominated by landscapes, genre and historical paintings. Ludwig I began collecting contemporary paintings in the 1820s, and had a museum built in the late classical style from private funds between 1846 and 1853. Following the destruction of this building in 1944/45, the new building – which was based on plans by the architect Alexander Freiherr von Branca – was opened in 1981.

Neue Pinakothek Web Site


Contact: Tel: (49) 89 238 051 95



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