Overview: A survey of 41 paintings, 60 drawings and pastels, and 29 watercolors by the 19th-century German artist Adolph Menzel was chosen from public and private collections in Europe and North America. The exhibition was the first retrospective of works by Menzel, the leading artist in Berlin in the second half of the 19th century. The catalogue was the first major publication about Menzel's life in English.

Organization: The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and the Réunion des musées nationaux/Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Curators for the exhibition were Claude Keisch, curator at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin; Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher, curator at the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin; Henri Loyrette, director of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris; and Philip Conisbee, curator of French paintings at the National Gallery.

Sponsor: The exhibition was made possible in part by Mannesmann Capital Corporation. Additional support was provided by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany and by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Other Venues:

• Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 04/15/1996–07/28/1996
• Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 02/07/1997–05/11/1997