Heinrich Adam (painter)

Heinrich Adam, drawing by Arthur von Ramberg

Heinrich Adam (born March 27, 1787 in Nördlingen , † February 15, 1862 in Munich ) was a German etcher and landscape painter .

origin

Heinrich Adam was the second son of the confectioner and grocer in Nördlingen, Veit Jeremias Adam (1754-1830) and his wife Margarethe Barbara, a daughter of Pastor Thilo from Nördlingen. His older brother, the painter Albrecht (1786–1862), became the head of the Adam family of painters and lithographers .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a pastry chef, Heinrich Adam went to Augsburg in 1808 to the “Imperial City Art Academy”, where he trained as an etcher. In addition to his own work, he etched pictures by his brother Albrecht and works by old masters , preferably from Dutch painting . During his first stay at Lake Como in 1811, he also turned to watercolor painting, and later to oil painting . Further study trips to Northern Italy followed in 1813, 1819, 1821 and 1851. Heinrich Adam made drawings and sketches on them , which he depicted in his landscape paintings. In his works there are also motifs from Switzerland, the Bavarian Alps and cityscapes, especially from Munich and the surrounding area. "His pictures are hard-working and lifelike works, but executed in a sober and dry manner, as are his etchings."

In 1822 he married Julie Brack (1800-1892).

View of Como

Ruin and castle on the Fernstein Pass

Works (selection)

• View of Como , 1827
• Neuhauser Strasse towards Karlstor , in the foreground St. Michael , Munich, 1829
• Ruin and castle on the Fernstein Pass , 1832
• View of Lake Como and the city of Como , 1833
• Marienplatz with Schranne , Munich, 1843
• Riva on Lake Garda , 1843
• View from the winning goal from the Ludwig road up , Munich 1844; German private collection
• View of Hohenschwangau Castle with Alp - and Schwansee and other views
• Biederstein Castle in Munich
• View of Starnberg with the church and castle
• Nymphenburg Palace in Munich

tomb

Grave of Heinrich Adam on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

According to the inscription on the tomb of her brother ( Albrecht Adam 1786-1862) by Heinrich Adam also his grave is the brother on the in the Old South Cemetery in Munich (burial ground 27 - Series 1 - Place 25/26) Location . However, the grave book does not record the brother Heinrich Adam. The inscription on the grave was probably added recently as part of all "painting" family members.

literature

• Adam, Heinrich . 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. 63 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Ulrike von Hase-Schmundt: Albrecht Adam and his family. On the history of a Munich artist dynasty in the 19th and 20th centuries . Wolf and Son, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-922979-02-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Margaretha Sibylla according to his brother Albrecht Adam's autobiography, cf. Albrecht Adam: From the life of a battle painter. Autobiography . First printing: H. Holland (Ed.), Cotta, Stuttgart 1886, complete new edition: Karl-Maria Guth (Ed.), Hofenberg, Berlin 2014, p. 6.
2. ↑ Thieme-Becker, Vol. 1, p. 63.
3. ↑ Claudia Denk, John Ziesemer: Grabstätte 164. In: Art and Memoria, Der Alte Südliche Friedhof in Munich. 2014, p. 471 ff.

Web links

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

• Works by Heinrich Adam (painter) at Zeno.org .