Jörg Probst: Adolph Menzel Drawing between Memory and Realization

Description

The master draughtsman Adolph Menzel (1815-1905) has gone down in art history as an observer. His sketchbooks in particular bear witness to his always
always alert eye and an extremely agile hand. Menzel used very different observation techniques to record the world around him.
As a record of memorable moments, the sketchbooks are also the embodiment of Menzel's memory. Therefore, the divergences
and inner transformations of his art of drawing are also transformations of his memory and mnemonic work. This history of images and ideas of memory as
Adolph Menzel's pictorial practice.

Based on Menzel's sketchbooks, Jörg Probst explores the working methods of one of the most famous artists of the 19th century. The text with scholarly
The revised version of a lecture held at the Kunsthandlung H. W. Fichter in October 2018, the annotated text offers an in-depth analysis of Menzel's art of drawing as an
in-depth analysis of Menzel's art of drawing as an art of memory.

Dr. Jörg Probst has been head of the interdisciplinary research and teaching platform Portal History of Ideas at the Philipps University of Marburg since 2010. With a research focus on political iconology, aesthetic politics, scientific graphics and drawing, he approaches the history of ideas as a political scientist and art historian.