Hamlet and Polonius
Artwork details
- Artist
- Adolph Menzel
- Title
- Hamlet and Polonius
- Date
- 1845
- Medium
- Etching
- Edition
- N/A
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Bock, 1150 II.
- Sheet
- 40.6 x 26.2 cm
- Status
- Available
- Price
- £800.00
The Berlin-based artist Adolph Menzel enjoyed lifetime recognition for his paintings, drawings and prints. He earned the respect of prominent colleagues and influential contemporary critics. Numerous one-man exhibitions of his work staged in major museums, galleries and art associations added to his renown. He was accorded the highest national honours and elevated to the nobility. A comprehensive memorial exhibition staged shortly after his death at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin crowned his stellar career. The Nationalgalerie had regularly secured many of his major works for its collection and went on to acquire his artistic estate, thus guaranteeing him a permanent place in the annals of German nineteenth-century art.
