德国近代首屈一指的伟大写实主义画家阿道尔夫·门采尔于1815年出生在德国的布雷斯劳。他从小酷爱绘画,少年时便在柏林向石印商的父亲系统地学习绘画。由于种种原因,他从未进过美术学院,也没拜任何画家为师。然而,这位勤奋的天才画家带着他那敏锐的双眼到大自然中去,画那里的山水、花草、树木和原野的景色;他深入工人和农民的生活,画他们劳动的情景、普通的生活、穷苦的人家。他极其自然生动地画出宁静的田园景色、沸腾的劳动场面。他画的工人、农民决不是故作姿态,而是他们在工厂或田野勤奋劳动的真实写照。门采尔一生给后人留下五千余件作品,于1905年与世长辞。同年2月9日,在国立美术馆举办了他的 Adolf Menzel, a leading German great modernist painter, was born in Breslau, Germany, in 1815. He grew up in love with painting, as a teenager, systematically studied painting with the father of a stone printer in Berlin. For various reasons, he never went to Academy of Fine Arts, nor did he worship any artist as a teacher. However, this diligent, talented painter took his keen eyes to nature and drew pictures of landscapes, flowers, trees, and wilderness there; he went deep into the lives of workers and peasants, painted scenes of their labor, and ordinary Life, poor people. He is extremely natural and vivid to draw the quiet pastoral scenery, boiling work scenes. He painted the workers, the peasants are by no means a pretending gesture, but a true portrayal of their hard work in factories or fields. Menzel life left more than 5000 pieces for future generations, died in 1905. February 9 the same year, held at the National Art Museum of his