Menzel's Realism

Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin

by Michael Fried

2002 320 pages eng

"Adolph Menzel was one of the most important German artists of the nineteenth century, yet he is scarcely known outside his native land. In this book a leading art historian contends that Menzel deserves to be recognized not only as one of the greatest painters and draftsmen of his century but also …