Adolf von Menzel Works Online
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Original works by Adolf von Menzel available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Adolf von Menzel at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
3 works online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
15 works by Menzel
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Figure Studies, 1874
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Adolf von Menzel at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
Afternoon in the Tuileries Gardens
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
Head of a Young Man
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK
Study for Contribution, 1884
Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California
Artist's Model, Putting on a Uniform, chalk drawing, ca.1850-55
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Man making a bow
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German)
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany - Provenance Research
2 works
Hammer Museum, California
Bear Pit in the Berlin Zoo, 1851
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
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National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish)
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Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Regional Art Gallery in Liberec, Czech Republic
Interior of St. Peters' Church in Vienna, 1873
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Gewitter am Tempelhofer Berg
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Adolf von Menzel in the Art Renewal Center
Adolf von Menzel at CGFA
Google Art Project NEW!
8 works online
Adolf von Menzel at The Athenaeum 
2 works online
Adolf von Menzel in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Lost Art Internet Database, Germany
Study of two chairs, pencil drawing, recovered 1942
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
The Modernist Journals Project
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Adolf von Menzel 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Articles and Texticles (Michael Hirsh's Blog on Art + Animation)
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Menzel's Realism
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Drawings of Menzel (Master Draughtsman Series)
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