Adolf Lins - Artist Info

About Adolf Lins

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    Adolf Lins (German, 1856-1927)

    Lins studied at the Academy of Arts in Kassel, spending 1874 in Willingshausen in der Schwalm to study, on the advice of his teacher. Friendship with Düsseldorf artists including Heinrich Sondermann, Hugo Mühlig and Hans Richard von Volkmann induced Lins to move to Düsseldorf in 1877 where he settled in the premises of the G. Paffrath joinery and art shipment house, initially working with F. Brütt.

    Drawings and studies resulted from numerous further stays in Willingshausen and, after 1908, close by in Roillshausen as well as on the Lower Rhine. Lins exhibited his scenes of children and the many village scenes and landscapes peopled with decorative figures from 1877 onwards, primarily in Be...

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