In the Kaiser's Capital

Dickie, James Francis

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Author:: Dickie, James Francis

Title:: In the Kaiser's Capital

Publication:: New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912

Language:: English

Digitization:: Berlin: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin, 2024

Scope:: 315 Seiten

Note:: "History of the American Church in Berlin" im Anhang

Keywords:: Berlin ; Geschichte 1871-1918 ; Kultur ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

Berlin:: B 184 Kulturgeschichte: 1800 -1918

DDC Group:: 900 Geschichte

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:109-1-15493784

Collection:: History,Cultural History

Location:: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin

Shelfmark:: B 184/132

Copyright:: Public Domain

Accessibility:: Free Access

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Title:: Chapter XI. Adolph Menzel

CHAPTER XI ADOLPH MENZEL I HAD met Adolph Menzel a few times casually, but we had not ‘learned to know each other,” as the German phrase is, until we met in Munich in 1902. It was during the festival plays at the Prinz Regenten Theatre in Munich, when the Wagner operas are given. All the hotels were crowded, and I was driven from pillar to post, or, as the Germans strangely say, ‘‘ from Pontius to Pilatus,” until I found a resting place in the Petershof, opposite the new town hall. As I sat down to lunch the day after my arrival, who should come in and sit next me at the table but the great painter! He was a notable figure—kenspeckle, the Scotch would say. He was about four-feet-two in height, hence he was known in Berlin as die kleine Excellenz. As is well known, he was renowned as the historic painter of the reign- ing house of Hohenzollern. Who has not seen his picture of Frederick the Great playing the flute! Or of the dinner party in Sans-Souci, where, next to Frederick, Voltaire is the most notable personage? Or who that has seen his wondrous picture of ““ The Market Place in Verona” can ever forget it? He was a little man, but a great painter—perhaps the greatest German painter of his era. So long as he lived he never failed to attend the 129

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