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Falcon Attacking a Pigeon by Adolph von Menzel

Falcon Attacking a Pigeon

Adolph von Menzel · 1844

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Artist
Adolph von Menzel
Date
1844
Location
Alte Nationalgalerie
ART MOVEMENTS
Naturalism
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Adolph von Menzel

Prussian master who captured 19th-century Berlin life with photographic precision and revolutionary realism.

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