Franz Adam (May 4, 1815 – September 30, 1886) was a German painter, chiefly of military subjects, born and active for much of his life in Italy.

Life

Adam was born in

Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...

, which about this time became part of the

Austrian Empire The Austrian Empire, officially known as the Empire of Austria, was a Multinational state, multinational European Great Powers, great power from 1804 to 1867, created by proclamation out of the Habsburg monarchy, realms of the Habsburgs. Duri ...

, to painter Albrecht Adam, a German who had spent the prior several years in areas that would later become Italy. Franz Adam's first notable work was a collection of

lithograph Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the miscibility, immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by ...

s on the

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, done jointly with noted lithographer Denis Auguste Marie Raffet. He painted his first masterpiece during the

Second Italian War of Independence The Second Italian War of Independence, also called the Sardinian War, the Austro-Sardinian War, the Franco-Austrian War, or the Italian War of 1859 (Italian: ''Seconda guerra d'indipendenza italiana''; German: ''Sardinischer Krieg''; French: ...

of 1859, a scene from the

Battle of Solferino The Battle of Solferino (referred to in Italy as the Battle of Solferino and San Martino) on 24 June 1859 resulted in the victory of the allied Second French Empire, French army under Napoleon III and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, Piedmont- ...

. His best-known works, meanwhile, depict the

Franco-Prussian War The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. Lasting from 19 July 1870 to 28 Janua ...

of 1870. Of Adam's students, Josef Brandt was the most notable. Adam also taught painting to his nephew,

Emil Adam Emil Franz Adam (20 May 1843, in Munich – 19 January 1924, in Munich) was a German equestrian painter. Life Adam was the son of animal painter Benno Adam. He initially intended to devote himself to science, but, carried away by the exampl ...

. His brothers Benno and

Eugen Eugen is a masculine given name which may refer to: * Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863–1954), last Habsburg Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order from 1894 to 1923 * Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke (1865–1947), Swedish painter, art collector, and pa ...

were also painters.

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* 1815 births 1886 deaths Painters from the Austrian Empire Artists from Milan 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian battle painters 19th-century war artists 19th-century Italian male artists {{Germany-artist-stub

Life

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