The Balcony Room by Adolph von Menzel - Postcard

The Balcony Room (Das Balkonzimmer), painted in 1845 by German artist Adolph von Menzel (1815–1905), is an intimate study of an almost empty interior transformed by natural light. A tall balcony door is veiled by delicate white curtains, while sunlight stretches across the wooden floor and illuminates the quiet room. A dark wooden mirror and a single chair introduce the few visible furnishings.

The Balcony Room belongs to a group of intimate interior paintings Menzel created in the 1840s. The work was part of his private artistic practice and was not publicly exhibited during his lifetime. Today, it is recognised as one of the key works of his early period and is held by the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The museum describes it as the beginning of Menzel's series of interior landscapes.

Reproduced as a fine-art postcard, The Balcony Room brings the quiet poetry of an ordinary nineteenth-century interior into the intimate format of traditional correspondence. It is an evocative choice for lovers of historic interiors, German art, architectural details, natural light, quiet rooms, nineteenth-century painting and fine-art postcards for postcrossing and snail mail.

Density -350 g/m

Glossy lamination on the front side of the postcard.

Size - 10*15cm