Studio Wall

Studio Wall is an oil painting by the German artist Adolph Menzel, from 1872. It is held at the Hamburger Kunsthalle. It is considered a masterpiece of his maturity, which he deemed his best painting.

The painting depicts a red colored wall of the artist's studio at night, upon which are hung a series of plaster casts illuminated from below. The casts include portrait busts, death masks and life masks of friends of the artist, children, classical personae such as Dante and Schiller, male and female torsos, a dog and possibly Goethe or Wagner; art historian Werner Hofmann saw this assemblage as a conscious blurring of "the dividing line between fame and anonymity." Numerous commentators have noted that the array of dramatically lit casts "convey an uncanny impression of quasi-animateness."

Studio Wall was preceded by a work of the same title painted in 1852, an oil on paper now in the Alte …

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