Albrecht Adam was a German

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 painter

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 of battles and horses.

Born in Nördlingen

Nördlingen

Nördlingen is a town in the Donau-Ries district, in Bavaria, Germany, with a population of 20,000. It is located in the middle of a complex meteorite crater, called the Nördlinger Ries. The town was also the place of two battles during the Thirty Years' War...

, he began an apprenticeship as a confectioner and went in 1803 to Nuremberg

Nuremberg

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 to begin his training. However, influenced by the director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Nuremberg

Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg

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 and later by Johann Rugendas, he turned towards painting – mainly battlefields and horses.

After participating in the Austria

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n campaign of 1809, he stayed for a time in Vienna

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, where he drew the attention of Napoleon's stepson Eugène de Beauharnais

Eugène de Beauharnais

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 and was appointed his court painter

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.

Most of Adam's subsequent works deal with Napoleon's Russia

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n campaign, during which he was attached to the Bavarian contingent as a war artist. In addition to his title as court painter, he was given an officer's rank. Among other works, he painted a diary

Diary

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 of the campaign in 83 scenes.

In 1815, Adam moved to Munich

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, where he was occupied by the emperors and kings of Austria

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 and Bavaria

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. His studio in Munich was frequently visited by Theodor Horschelt, who later became well known for his paintings of the Russian Caucasian War

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He worked until a great age, recording battles and portraying horses, even though in his late works he was supported by the help of his sons, Benno

Benno Adam

Benno Raffael Adam was a German painter.He specialised in animal portraits and market and hunting scenes.He was the son of painter Albrecht Adam and the father of painter Emil Adam.-Sources:...

, Eugen

Eugen Adam

Eugen Adam was a German painter.He specialised on animal, genre, landscape and battle paintings. He had his atelier in Munich, and lived in Milan during the years 1849-1858. In 1859 he became war reporter for the journal Ueber Land und Meer...

 and Franz

Franz Adam

Franz Adam was a German painter, chiefly of military subjects, born and active for much of his life in Italy.Adam was born in Milan, Italy, to painter Albrecht Adam, a German who had spent the prior several years in Italy...

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It is traced, that he lived at Sing Straße 13 in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

around 1850.

Adam died in Munich in 1862.