Richard Benno Adam

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Richard B. Adam: Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria on the way to hunting in the Berchtesgadener Land. (Painting 1910/1911)

Richard Benno Adam (born March 5, 1873 in Munich ; † January 20, 1937 there ) was a German portrait and horse painter .

Life

Richard Adam came from the Adam family of painters , was the son of Emil Adam and his wife Josefine Marie, nee. Wurmb , and the great-grandson of the Bavarian battle painter of the Napoleonic era, Albrecht Adam .

He has been taught painting by his father since childhood and then received his training at the Munich School of Applied Arts. He studied with Nicolas Gysis at the Academy of Fine Arts with Sigmund Strähuber and Ludwig von Langenmantel (1854–1922), as well as in the private school run by Heinrich Knirr (* 1862). From 1892 to 1894 he studied with Hermann Baisch at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe . Count Wilczek was his first well-known client from 1893 to 1895, whom he got from his father Emil Adam. Since 1896 he created his first horse portraits for the German, Austrian, Bohemian and Hungarian nobility. Around 1897 he was a summer guest in Possenhofen, Bavaria, and created a group picture with Empress Elisabeth , the popular Sissi . In 1899 he painted the Budapest Hunting Party , a series that included 47 horse portraits.

His numerous equestrian portraits became famous, especially that of Kaiser Wilhelm II , which was printed as a war postcard in mass circulation. During the First World War he was a war painter of the imperial war press quarters in Galicia and the imperial headquarters in France. After 1918 he successfully continued his work as a portrait and horse painter for aristocratic circles. Between 1928 and 1931 he worked several times in the USA, during which he made portraits of top American athletes. He later held a professorship in Munich. His estate can be found in the Munich City Archives (NL Adam).

The House of Adam and the White Rose

Richard Adam was married to Margarete Adam and had two daughters with her, Margit Adam and Gabriele Adam. The family owned the house at Prinzenstrasse 30 in Munich-Neuhausen , where Richard Berndl's son Otto Berndl and his wife Lilo Ramdohr rented an apartment on the first floor from the spring of 1940 . At Christmas 1940/41 Clara , Arvid and Mildred Harnack were guests here. After Otto Berndl's death in May 1942, Alexander Schmorell , Hans Scholl and Christoph Probst frequented this place , and boxes with leaflets from the White Rose were deposited here. In February 1943, Falk Harnack was visiting Lilo Ramdohr when he contacted the White Rose through her mediation. Schmorell took place on 18./19. February 1943 at the beginning of his fateful escape in Adam's shelter.

In March / April 1943 Richard Adam's widow, Margarete, and daughter Margit were therefore questioned by the Gestapo without any results. In the spring of 1944, Lilo Ramdohr's second husband, Carl G. Fürst, the nephew of the painter Margarethe von Reinken , lived here for a while before moving to Aschersleben .

The house at Prinzenstrasse 30 was placed under monument protection in 2018.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Too valuable to be demolished
personal data
SURNAME Adam, Richard Benno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adam, Richard (short name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German horse painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1937
Place of death Munich