Adolf Franz Theodor Münzer) was a German painter and graphic artist was the son of a lawyer and notary, after the early death of his father, he grew up in Breslau from 1876, where he first attended the Matthias -Gymnasium and 1886 began training with the decorative painter Georg Heintze.

Afterwards he visited the art and trade school Breslau. His teachers there were Heinrich Irmann, Paul Schobelt and Albrecht Bräuer. In 1894 he began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Karl Raupp and Otto Seitz. After military service, he entered the painting class of Paul Hoecker, who especially took on the open-air painting. In 1896 a master studio was set up there.
In 1898 he was one of the two winners of the first competition ...