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

• Pfändung der letzten Kuh (1861) (Mortgaging the last cow)
• Erster Rehbock (1879) (First stag)
• Feldschule in Wallensteins Lager (field instruction in Wallenstein's camp)
• Die verunglückte Musikprobe (Music test gone wrong)
• Der Hochzeitstag (Wedding day)
• Nach der Taufe (After the baptism)
• Zitherunterricht (Zither lesson)
• Das Tischgebet (grace)
• Verspätetes Mittagessen des heimgekehrten Försters (forester's late lunch after returning home)

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