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Show ART LOSES A VOTARY German Painter Dies at Age of 90, Loved by His People. BERLIN, Feb. 9. Adolph von Menzel. the artist, died today, aged about SO ear3. His death was due to weakness superinduced by a severe cold. Menzel had been Identified with the best in German art for sixty years and had been treated by this generation with that reverence and respect which Germans iove to show to their old men. His quaint figure, about five feet tall, with hat, cravat and dress suggesting the fifties, was known to most of the people In Berlin, for he was often In the streets walking for pleasure and observing people. He sat In a certain restaurant almost every evening until last Friday for an hour or two taking a glass of wine, and then walking home. Menzel's work even to within the last five .years was regarded as very good and he worked every morning until taken ta-ken ill. He was often mentioned as the first artist to receive the highest Prussian Prus-sian decoration, the Black Eagle, conferred con-ferred on him by the present Emperor, who held him In much esteem. By order of the Emperor the body i t VonVMenzel will be buried here In the rotttfQda of the old museum of art. |