Richard Benno Adam ART FOR SALE

1873 Munich, Germany - 1937 Munich, Germany. Known for: Equestrian painting.

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Richard Benno Adam (b. Munich, March 5, 1873; d. Munich, January 20, 1937). An equestrian sports painter, he was the great-grandson of painter Albrecht Adam. He studied in Munich with Nicolas Gysis at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, with Sigmund Strähuber and Ludwig von Langenmantel (1854-1922), and in the private school run by Heinrich Knirr (b 1862). Between 1892 and 1894 he studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe. From 1896 he painted his first equestrian portraits of the German, Austrian, Bohemian and Hungarian nobility. In 1899 he painted the Budapest Hunting Society, which included 47 equestrian portraits. He was a war artist during World War I in Galicia and in the Imperial Headquarters in France.... Read full biography

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Leibgardist with Count Lehndorff Up, Hoppegarten Racecourse, Grunewald, Berlin

Type:Painting

Year:1898

Size:19.75" x 22.75"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Signed and Dated

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This work to be auctioned November 13 by The Sporting Art Auction. Please visit www.thesportingartauction.com for more information.

Price: between $5,000 and $25,000. Please contact Cross Gate Gallery