Max Adamo

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Max Adamo (born November 3, 1837 in Munich ; † December 31, 1901 there ) was a German history painter and illustrator .

Life

Robespierre's fall in the National Convention on July 27, 1794 - Alte Nationalgalerie , Berlin

Max Adamo was the son of the ministerial archivist Max Joseph Adamo . The genre painter Albert Adamo was his brother. After Adamo finished school at a Munich high school, he was accepted as a student at the art academy in his hometown.

At first he was a student of Hermann Anschütz and Philipp von Foltz , under whose direction the fresco The heyday of Nuremberg and Regensburg was created in the National Museum . Adamo later became a student of Karl Theodor von Piloty and it was during this time that some of Adamo's most important paintings were created.

Adamo worked as a history and genre painter as well as an illustrator; as a subject teacher (drawing teacher) he taught at the Realschule in Kaiserslautern and at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich. He was a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative (MKG). One of his private students was Max von Schmaedel (1856–1939).

Works (selection)

  • Duke Alba in the Brussels Council
  • Robespierre's fall in the National Convention (1870)
  • Orange's last meeting with Egmont
  • Charles I and Cromwell meeting the Parliamentary Army at Childerley
  • Dissolution of the Long Parliament by Cromwell
  • The adept in the laboratory
  • Troubled learning
  • The armorer
  • Charles IX, King of France (1550–1574) , drawing; Gift of the painter Ernst Reinhard Zimmermann (1881–1939) to Karl Grün, businessman, both Munich; 2005 from the collection of the General Inspector of Artillery, Otto Grün, in Munich private ownership

literature

  • Max Adamo . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 1, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 103.
  • Karl von Spruner: The murals of the Bavarian National Museum explained historically. Munich 1868, pp. 240-243, pp. 466-475.
  • Adamo, Max. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, p. 19 ( archive.org ).
  • Adamo, Max . 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. 71–72 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  • Max Adamo . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 1, Seemann, Leipzig 1983, ISBN 3-598-22741-8 ., ISBN 978-3-598-22741-7
  • Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th century. Volume 1, Munich 1981, p. 23 (ill.)
  • Hans Ries: Illustrations and Illustrators 1871–1914. The range of images from the Wilhelmine era. History and aesthetics of the original and printing techniques. International lexicon of illustrators Bibliography of their work in German-language books and magazines, on picture sheets and blackboards. H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück 1992, ISBN 3-87898-329-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Weiss : Desired career art. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium from 1849 to 1918. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, p. 326. [ ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 ].
personal data
SURNAME Adamo, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1901
Place of death Munich