Adolph Menzel

1885·charcoal and graphite with stumping and scraped corrections, touched with yellow pastel, on tan wove paper, indented for transfer·sheet: 29.1 x 21.8 cm (11 7/16 x 8 9/16 in.)

Catalogue

Year: 1885
Medium: charcoal and graphite with stumping and scraped corrections, touched with yellow pastel, on tan wove paper, indented for transfer
Dimensions: sheet: 29.1 x 21.8 cm (11 7/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Collection: National Gallery of Art
Artist: Karl Stauffer-Bern

Artist

Karl Stauffer-Bern

Sculpture

Karl Stauffer, known as Karl Stauffer-Bern was a Swiss painter, etcher and sculptor. In the late 1880s, Stauffer-Bern had a romantic affair with Lydia Welti-Escher, but her husband used his political influence to separate them and to place Welti-Escher in an insane asylum. A despondent Stauffer-Bern reacted with a suicide attempt which left him permanently injured. In January 1891, he committed suicide with an overdose of chloral hydrate.

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