The Artist's Sitting Room in Ritterstrasse, 1851, Oil on cardboard, 12 5/8 x 10 5/8 in. (32. 1 x 27 cm), Paintings, Adolph Menzel (German, Breslau 1815?1905 Berlin), This intimate, evocative interior view belongs to a group of five paintings in which Menzel studied the effects of light in simply furnished spaces he occupied in Berlin between 1845 and 1851. They are entirely characteristic of his unwavering eye for quotidian detail, yet the artist considered such works experiments and he never exhibited them