Innere Ansicht des Deutschen Volks Winter Gartens. IInterior of the German Winter Garden. 45 Bowery, New York
1856
Medium
Watercolor
Dimensions
Sheet: 22 1/16 × 29 1/2 in. (56 × 74.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954
Accession Number
54.90.166
Tags
Art Historical Context
Fritz Meyer’s 1856 watercolor the lively interior of the German Winter Garden, a popular entertainment venue at 45 Bowery in New York City. The scene depicts a bustling crowd of men, women, and children beneath a glass-roofed space filled with plants and architectural details, evoking the atmosphere of a public winter garden where visitors could enjoy music, refreshments, and social gatherings year-round. Created during a period of significant German immigration to New York, the work offers a rare visual record of immigrant community life in mid-nineteenth-century Manhattan. The Bowery was th...