FRAMED DRAWING. AFTER ADOLPH VON MENDEL, 20TH CENTURY.
Decorative Antiques - Paintings
Reference: ZF136813
Study. Drawing on framed paper. Following VON MENZEL, Adolph. 20th century. Inscription (lower left area). Inspired study (as indicated by handwritten text in the lower left area, “d'après Menzel”) by a work by Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (Breslau, 1815-Berlin, 1905) made for “The Broken Jug” (Der zerbrochene Krug), a deluxe edition by the Berlin publishing house A. Hoffmann & Co. produced to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Heinrich von Kleist in 1877. Knighted in 1898, the man formerly known as Adolph Menzel was a German painter known for his historical works and for being the main representative of nineteenth-century German pictorial realism.
· Size: 46x2,5x36 cms
300 €