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About the book >.>.> Famous across Europe and America recipient of the highest possible honours in Germany including the order of the Black Eagle and elevation to nobility admired by Degas as ‘the greatest living master’ Adolph Menzel was perhaps the greatest German painter of the late nineteenth century. In this splendidly illustrated book-the only comprehensive volume on Menzel in English-photographs of the artist and contemporary Berlin accompany reproductions of hundreds of his paintings and drawings. Menzel specialists and art historians contribute chapters on his life and art his visits to France his critical reception relevant social and historical background and different approaches to his work. Menzel became the registering eye of nineteenth- century Berlin capturing in his art the cosmopolitan metropolis and capital of united Germany. As Berlin was changing and becoming more industrialised Menzel depicted the society and its events in the most precise detail. His work is of interest to many from specialists of the Prussian Rococo to those curious about the social consequences of the industrial working world. Until recently Menzel’s many paintings and drawings were separated from one another in collections on either side of the Berlin Wall. Now in the wake of reunification the Berlin Museums have put together the most extensive Menzel exhibit since the retrospective that followed his death in 1905. This book is the catalogue for the exhibit that had its d?but at the Mus?e D’Orsay in Paris (April 15 to July 28) travels to the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. (September 15 1996 to January 5 1997) and returns to Nationalgalerie in Berlin (February 7 to May 11 1997). (OS)