Der Bärenzwinger im zoologischen Garten (The Bear Pit in the Zoological Gardens)

1851

Adolph Menzel

Artist, German, 1815 - 1905

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph on Chine appliqué on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.8 × 19.6 cm (9 3/4 × 7 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 44.3 × 35.9 cm (17 7/16 × 14 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.6143

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1933

  • A Century of Progress, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933, no. 161.

1950

  • Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, circulated by the American Federation of Arts to 11 venues (California Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Museum of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI; The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA; Museum of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO; Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Watkins Institute, Nashville, TN; and Memphis Academy of Art, Memphis, TN), 1950-1952, no cat.

2009

  • The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; NGA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009 - 2010

Inscriptions

recto: in stone, in image, at upper right: Menzel

Wikidata ID

Q65018474

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