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From #OCTOBER 1872
‘Studio Wall‘ Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (1815-1905)
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Oil on canvas. Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle. October 1872.
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‘Studio Wall … may have functioned as a kind of memorial: the central death mask is that of the artist's friend Friedrich Eggers, the first critic sympathetic to Menzel's work. Eggers died in August 1872, and the painting is dated from October of that year. ...
Interpretations ... vary greatly. For art historian Julius Meier-Graefe, Studio Wall was a harmonious example of pictorial unity; to the contrary, Hofmann saw the painting as a "coded manifesto", a rejection by Menzel of academic canons in favor of an aesthetic that celebrated the fragmentary & disjointed, and symbolic of the triumph of painting over sculpture. Fried rejects Hofman's view of fragmentariness & anti-academicism, seeing the picture as a structured composition of objects arranged in successive rows. For Fried the likeliest allegorical meaning would be the sublimation of tangible existence to that of "phantasmagorias", a world inhabited by ghosts in the form of plaster casts.’
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Studio_Wall

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