Richard Benno Adam - Artist Info

About Richard Benno Adam

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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 Galici...

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