Adolf Eberle Explained

Adolf Eberle (11 January 1843 – 24 January 1914) was a German painter who specialised in genre painting, particularly of Bavarian and Tyrolean farmers and huntsmen.

Biography

Eberle was born in Munich; his father, Robert Eberle, was also a painter.[1] At the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, he studied under Karl von Piloty beginning in 1860.[1] [2] He achieved success the following year with a painting called Pfändung der letzten Kuh (mortgaging the last cow),[3] of which William Unger made an engraving.[1]

After spending some time depicting soldiers in the Thirty Years' War and the Seven Years' War, he returned to subjects from Bavarian and Tyrolean peasant life.[4] At the 1879 international exposition in Munich, his Erster Rehbock (first stag) was well received.[1] A painting of his with the translated title Childhood Fun was sold for $16,800 at Bonhams in San Francisco in 2007,[5] and another with the translated title The Day's Bag for £7,500 at Christie's in London in 2012.[6]

Eberle died in Munich in 1914.[2] In 1952 Eberlestraße in the Solln neighbourhood of Munich was named after him.[7]

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. "Eberle, Adolf", Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 5 Distanzgeschäft  - Faidherbe, 4th ed., 1885-92,, online at Retrobibliothek .
  2. Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie Volume 2 Brann  - Einslin, 2005 ed.,, , col.1 .
  3. Hermann Alexander Müller, ed. Hans Wolfgang Singer, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon, Volume 1 A - F, 3rd ed. Frankfurt: Rütten & Loening, 1895,, .
  4. [Adolf Rosenberg]
  5. https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/15410/lot/124/ Lot 124, Auction 15410: European Paintings
  6. http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/adolf-eberle-the-days-bag-5601910-details.aspx Sale 6836, Lot 102
  7. http://www.sollner-hefte.de/ausgaben/strassennamen/str_detail.php?ID=28 Eberlestraße