Adam Eberle

Adam Eberle (1804–1832), one of the earliest and most gifted pupils of Cornelius, was born at Aix-la-Chapelle in 1804. He studied painting at the Düsseldorf Academy, and afterwards went with Cornelius to Munich. After commencing his career at Düsseldorf by painting The Entombment of Christ, and St. Helena with two Angels, he executed the large fresco-painting on the ceiling of the Odéon, representing Apollo among the Shepherds. In 1829 he went to Rome, where he died in 1832. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

See also

• List of German painters

References

This article incorporates text from the article "EBERLE, Adam" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.