Menzel (1815～1905)
Menzel, Adolfvon
German painter. Born in Breslau on December 8, 1815 and died in Berlin on February 9, 1905. In his early years, he received short-term training in plaster and life drawing. From 1839 to 1842, he became famous after being hired to create 600 illustrations for "The History of Frederick the Great". Later he became a Prussian court painter and created a series of oil paintings focusing on major historical events in the emperor's life. The highest artistic achievement is the large number of genre paintings, landscape paintings and portraits drawn directly from real life since the 1940s. Representative works such as "Prince Albrecht's Garden", "Bonn-Bostan Railway", "Playground Theater", etc. The most outstanding one is the large-scale oil painting "Steel Rolling Factory" created in 1875. This work eulogizes industrial workers in a simple and unpretentious style, marking the beginning of the industrial revolution and a new era of modern civilization. In his later years, the government awarded him the title of honorary citizen and served as honorary president of the University of Berlin. He created a large number of oil paintings, prints, watercolors, drawings, and sketches throughout his life, but most of them were destroyed by the artillery fire of World War II, and some of them are kept in major museums in Germany.
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