Lot Essay
In the 1840s and 50s, Menzel made many pencil sketches of his impressions of the concert halls he visited. Music was his passion and he not only regularly went to the Opera House and the Quartet of his friend Joseph Joachim at the Choral Academy, but also organised musical evenings at home for his friends.
In a letter to his friend Carl Heinrich Arnold in 1836, he wrote 'I am convinced that Music, if it is not perhaps the finest art, is undisputably the one that affects the soul most directly' (G. Lammel, in the catalogue of the exhibition Adolph Menzel 1815-1905. Master drawings from East Berlin, Virginia, 1990, p. 16).
Authenticated by Professor Otto Krigar-Manzel (1861-1929, son of Menzel's sister Emilie) and dated Berlin-Westend 28 Nov. 1910 on an old label on the reverse.
In 1859 Menzel's sister Emilie married the royal composer and conductor Hermann Krigar with whom Menzel lived until his death.
Possibly a study for the lady wearing a bonnet in Im Konzert, 1848 (see H. von Tschudi, Adolph von Menzel, Munich, 1905, no. 214).
In a letter to his friend Carl Heinrich Arnold in 1836, he wrote 'I am convinced that Music, if it is not perhaps the finest art, is undisputably the one that affects the soul most directly' (G. Lammel, in the catalogue of the exhibition Adolph Menzel 1815-1905. Master drawings from East Berlin, Virginia, 1990, p. 16).
Authenticated by Professor Otto Krigar-Manzel (1861-1929, son of Menzel's sister Emilie) and dated Berlin-Westend 28 Nov. 1910 on an old label on the reverse.
In 1859 Menzel's sister Emilie married the royal composer and conductor Hermann Krigar with whom Menzel lived until his death.
Possibly a study for the lady wearing a bonnet in Im Konzert, 1848 (see H. von Tschudi, Adolph von Menzel, Munich, 1905, no. 214).