Der Bärenzwinger im zoologischen Garten (The Bear Pit in the Zoological Gardens)
Adolph Menzel
1851
Medium
lithograph on Chine appliqué on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 24.8 × 19.6 cm (9 3/4 × 7 11/16 in.) sheet: 44.3 × 35.9 cm (17 7/16 × 14 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.6143
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Adolph Menzel · 1815–1905
Adolph Menzel (1815–1905) was a German painter, draftsman, and printmaker who became the most celebrated German artist of the nineteenth century and one of the most technically accomplished realists in European art. Born Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland), he moved to Berlin as a teenager and was largely self-taught, taking over his father's lithographic business ...