Emil Adam

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Emil Adam
The battle at Wagram

Emil Franz Adam (born May 20, 1843 in Munich ; † January 19, 1924 there ) was a German painter .

Life

Adam was the eldest son of the animal painter Benno Adam and thus the grandson of Albrecht Adam . He was trained in painting by his father and uncle, the painter Franz Adam . In 1860 at the age of seventeen he painted several pictures of horses on behalf of Archduke Karl Ludwig . He continued to paint horses, equestrian portraits and hunting scenes with sharp characteristics for the rest of his life. His painting of an “Austrian camp scene” was shown in the Cologne art exhibition in 1861 and was sold to to Holland. He went to Hohenheim near Stuttgart for some time to carry out further practical and theoretical studies on horses. In 1854, Prince Max zu Fürstenberg invited him to Lána Castle in Bohemia to paint there. He then went to see Prince Egon Maximilian von Thurn und Taxis in Pardubitz , where he made the first sports portraits. In 1865 he continued his training in Brussels with Jean-François Portaels , where he devoted himself particularly to figurative painting. In 1867 he returned to Pardubice, where his painting The Pardubice Hunting Company was created. In 1870, commissioned by the Duke of Nassau, he painted the 36 people from the high Westphalian and Rhenish nobility as well as the Lippspringer hunting party representing 34 horses and 36 dogs . For both paintings his father made the landscape and the dog representations. From 1886 he visited England once a year for several months. Adam is considered to be the first horse painter who preferred to paint noble pedigree horses. At the time, his works hung in the finest houses in Europe, including with Count Tassilo von Festetics , the Duke of Westminster, in the English jockey club in Newmarket or in the Kunsthalle in Kiel.

He was married to Josephine Marie, nee Wurmb. He was the father of the painter Richard Benno Adam (1873–1937) and the clergyman Ernst Adam (1884–1955).

Works

  • Painting by Emil Adam

  • St. Galmier, Newmarket, about 1885

  • The Fenékpuszta Herd, 1884

  • Mettalist, victor of the Nemzeti dij (Hungarian 2,000 guineas ) of 1884

  • Scepter, 1902 Triple Crown winner

literature

Web links

Commons : Emil Adam  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Pallmann : Adam, Emil . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 60 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Adam, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adam, Emil Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1924
Place of death Munich