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Heinrich Adam (1787 – 15 February 1862) was a German painter.
Heinrich Adam (1787 – 15 February 1862) was a German painter.
Life
Heinrich Adam, a brother of Albrecht Adam, was born in Nördlingen in 1787. He studied painting inAugsburg
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and Munich
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, and distinguished himself as a painter of landscapes and as an engraver. In 1811 he stayed with Albrecht at Lake Como, and painted in watercolours. He also engraved six hunting-pieces, after his brother Albrecht, at Milan
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, in 1813.
Subsequently he painted landscapes and views of towns, which are executed with great accuracy.Bryan 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. A set of watercolours in a similar format is in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
He died in Munich in 1862.
See also
*List of German painters
This is a list of German painters.
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* Hans von Aachen (1552–1615)
* Aatifi (born 1965)
* Karl Abt (1899–1985)
* Tomma Abts (born 1967)
* Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910)
* Oswald Achenbach (1827 ...
References
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1787 births 1862 deaths People from Nördlingen 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters {{Germany-painter-stub