Heinrich Adam

Portrait of Adam by Arthur von Ramberg, 1848

Heinrich Adam (1787 in Nördlingen – 15 February 1862, in Munich) was a German painter.

Life

Heinrich Adam, a brother of Albrecht Adam, was born at Nordlingen in 1787. He studied painting in Augsburg and Munich, and distinguished himself as a painter of landscapes and as an engraver. In 1811 he stayed with Albrecht at Lake Como, and painted in water-colours. He also engraved six hunting-pieces, after his brother Albrecht, at Milan, in 1813.[1]

Subsequently he painted landscapes and views of towns, which are executed with great accuracy.[1] His Das neue München mit den Bauten König Ludwigs I. (1839), a view in oils of the Max-Josephs-Platz, surrounded by 14 smaller pictures of new buildings in Munich, mounted together in one frame, is in the collection of the Munich Stadtmuseum.[2] A set of watercolours in a similar format is in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.[3]

He died at Munich in 1862.[1]

The Isar tower, 1834

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bryan
  2. ↑ "Das neue München mit den Bauten König Ludwigs I. (1839)". Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
  3. ↑ "Fifteen Architectural Subjects: Views of Munich". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 15 October 2012.

This article incorporates text from the article "ADAM, Heinrich" 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.

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