Adolph Menzel - horses and soldiers etc

 Salvete Omnes,

a quick illustrative post - on the equestrian etc themes within Adolph Menzel's works.

Adolph (1815-1905), knighted in 1898 as von Menzel, was a native to Prussian Silesia (born in Wroclaw, old seat of the Lower Silesia), and throughout the XIX century became the preeminent German and Prussian painter of the era in the German states and since 1871 the German Empire. 

Herr Adolph was skilled master in oils, gouache, drawing, printing, 

etchings and woodcuts.

enjoy

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