# Adolph Menzel's contemporaries

Artist galleries · hang 749 · 8 works

A few works by Adolph Menzel, then their contemporaries: makers of the same nationality born within 25 years of them, then works from the same century and place.

The rooms are imagined; every work on their walls is real.

## With their contemporaries

1. [An Infant Asleep in His Crib](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/an-infant-asleep-in-his-crib-nga-139131), Adolph Menzel, 1848. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-adolph-menzel/an-infant-asleep-in-his-crib-nga-139131?hang=749)
2. [View of the Peaks of Otter](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/view-of-the-peaks-of-otter-nga-212712), Woldemar Rau, 1858. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-adolph-menzel/view-of-the-peaks-of-otter-nga-212712?hang=749)
3. [The Fountain at Grottaferrata](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-fountain-at-grottaferrata-aic-209942), Adrian Ludwig (Ludwig) Richter, 1832. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-adolph-menzel/the-fountain-at-grottaferrata-aic-209942?hang=749)
4. [Im Höllenthal (In the Höllen Valley)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/im-hollenthal-in-the-hollen-valley-nga-108753), Johann Christoph Erhard, 1818. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-adolph-menzel/im-hollenthal-in-the-hollen-valley-nga-108753?hang=749)

## Their contemporaries

5. [Seventh Regiment on Review, Washington Square, New York](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/seventh-regiment-on-review-washington-square-new-york-met-10194), Otto Boetticher, 1851. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-adolph-menzel/seventh-regiment-on-review-washington-square-new-york-met-10194?hang=749)
6. [The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-interior-of-the-palm-house-on-the-pfaueninsel-near-potsd-aic-144969), Carl Blechen, 1834. Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-adolph-menzel/the-interior-of-the-palm-house-on-the-pfaueninsel-near-potsd-aic-144969?hang=749)

## Their contemporaries, second

7. [Rhine at the Lurlei](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/rhine-at-the-lurlei-si-saam-1983-83-171), George Elbert Burr, 1900. Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-adolph-menzel/rhine-at-the-lurlei-si-saam-1983-83-171?hang=749)
8. [Two Men Contemplating the Moon](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/two-men-contemplating-the-moon-met-438417), Caspar David Friedrich, ca. 1825–30. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Walk to it](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-adolph-menzel/two-men-contemplating-the-moon-met-438417?hang=749)

## Doors

- [More Neoclassicism](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/neoclassicism?hang=749&via=continue) (109 works)
- [19th-century Germany](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/19-germany?hang=749&via=continue) (14 works)