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| | Guardian Unlimited | Arts critics | Review: Paintings from Berlin's Nationalgalerie, National Gallery |
 | | His output was enormously varied, ranging from these everyday scenes to gaslit nights at the theatre, Wilhelm I passing along the Unter den Linden in his carriage, the populace looking on, the flags strangled on their poles in the breeze. |
 | | Such scenes of modern life are complemented by creepy paintings of fragments of life-casts and death masks hung on Menzel's studio wall, viewed in the flickering candlelight. |
 | | To move from this painting to Menzel's dinner at a crowded ball, the dripping gilded scene, the tiaras, dresses, chandeliers, is a delirious, vertiginous shift. |
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