Luitpold Adam the Elder
Luitpold Adam the Elder (born February 23, 1888 in Munich ; † August 20, 1950 in Frauenau ) was a German painter.
Life
Adam was born in 1888 as the twelfth child of the painter Emil Adam . In 1904/05 he attended a private drawing school in Munich, from 1905 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich for two years in the drawing class of Gabriel von Hackl and four years in the painting class of Karl von Marr and Walter Thorm . From 1911 he worked as a freelance painter. The following year he joined the Munich artists' cooperative.
During the First World War, Adam volunteered in the military. He was transferred to France and took part in the 1914 assault on Wijtschate and in the 1915 battle of Neuve-Chapelle . From March 1915 he was stationed at Formalelles in northern France. During this time numerous sketches and photographs were made. In 1916 he suffered an injury near Verdun . After the war, Adam was appointed to the Berlin Image and Film Office in 1919.
As a NSDAP member and member of the Front Fighters' Association of Fine Artists , he took part in an exhibition in Magdeburg in 1937 . There he showed several pictures of the war. From 1941 he was head of the group “painters and press draftsmen” in the Propaganda replacement department in Potsdam . Shortly before the end of the war, Adam saved the archive of this department in the Bavarian Forest . In August 946 he handed over the archive hidden at Zwiesel to the US Army.
After the Second World War, Luitpold Adam the Elder lived in Frauenau, where he again worked as a freelance artist.
From 1938 Adam was married to Helene Levermann. He was also the brother of the painter Richard Benno Adam and the clergyman Ernst Adam .
plant
In addition to depictions of war from the First and Second World Wars, Adam mainly painted portraits in a realistic portrait style based on the Munich School of Painting. He also created pictures with Christian themes. He worked as a sculptor for the porcelain manufacturer Rosenthal in Selb .
literature
- Luitpold Adam the Elder . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 9 .
- Florian Hufnagl: Adam the Elder, Luitpold . In: Horst Ludwig (Hrsg.): Bruckmanns Lexikon der Münchner Kunst . Munich painter in the 19th and 20th centuries Century . Volume 5, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1993, p. 12 f.
Web links
- Portraits of three rectors of the University of Cologne , University of Cologne
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brigitte Zuber: On the denazification of the artists of the GDK , lecture at the international conference The Great German Art Exhibitions 1937–1944 / 45 , Central Institute for Art History, accessed on August 28, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adam, Luitpold the Elder |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th August 1950 |
| Place of death | Frauenau |