The Interior of the Jacobskirche at Innsbruck
Adolph Menzel
1872
Medium
gouache on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 40 x 26.2 cm (15 3/4 x 10 5/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund and gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
2000.56.1
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 ...