Well researched. This book is full of beautiful illustrations of his work.

It's been a real pleasure to read this book that treats a great artist so little known nowadays. Actually the text is occupying only about 20 pages of the book, tells us about the artist's social and professional life and about how this, partly unpublished material was collected. As a bonus, it is James Gurney to present us Menzel giving an unusual insight to the artist's life, Instead of a dry, boring biography this kind of introduction is very interesting and entertaining, it contains also some funny but also shocking notes. Gurney who himself is an excellent artist and teacher (I own some of his instructional books,). knows what kind of information is the most valuable to art students, so he underlines the eager will of Menzel to draw literally everything, including dead people, sleeping people but even a man on the toilet The drawings that fill the book are really beautiful, I enjoyed especially the portraits, made with a loose but very powerful technique. .

I'm a self-taught artist, as well as a passionate student of art history, and discovering previously unknown (to me) artists always inspires me. I have not known of Adolph Menzel and was delighted to get introduced to this artist. As with all Dover books, there's a great combination of information about the artist and his works. I find is drawings and watercolors particularly interesting and something to study further. Thank you for the opportunity to review this title.

As a huge lover of art who likes to dabble into it herself, I completely enjoyed this book. I loved all the plates and liked the variety between full color and black and white. I left an excerpt of this book on my blog at Januarygray.net and also shared on my FB page, Twitter and Amazon. Thank you.

I'm really amazed that I had never heard of Adolph Menzel before requesting this book from Netgalley. His work has almost all of the characteristics that attract me the most in art – clear-eyed realism, compelling subject matter, and a gift for portraying that subject matter in a non-stereotypical manner. He's almost the artist I would have liked to be. I loved this collection.

The usual disclaimer: I received this book via Netgalley for review.