Künstlers Erdenwallen (The Artist’s Earthly Pilgrimage)
1834
Medium
six lithographs on chine appliqué on wove paper, in original lithograph wrapper on light blue wove paper
Dimensions
sheet (each): 31 × 47 cm (12 3/16 × 18 1/2 in.) overall (wrapper): 32.5 × 48 cm (12 13/16 × 18 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Helena E.M. Gunnarsson Fund
Accession Number
2023.62.1
About the Artist
Adolph Menzel
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 ...