Georg
Adam

Son of Johann, gardener. Unmarried. Student of Abraham Wolfgang Küffner in Nuremberg, then a longer stay in Munich, where he continued his education with the local landscape painters and draftsmen. He made repeated trips to Tyrol and the Salzkammergut. He mainly created landscape etchings based on his own drawings, occasionally also based on models by Johann Christoph Erhard. Most of his numerous etched and engraved sheets were published by the Friedrich Campe publishing house, for whom he also worked as a draftsman of illustrated sheets. Some sheets were published by Conrad Riedel. Adam lived in the district of Gärten vor dem Vestnertor 128 (later Nebengasse 44, today: Pilotystraße). Works: NUREMBERG and surroundings, etchings: Castle of Nuremberg from the midday side, 12.8 x 21.2 cm. The castle from the evening side, 8 x 12 cm; Nuremberg from the morning side and Nuremberg from the evening side, each. approx. 13.5 x 29 cm. –, Vestnerkirche (Walpurgis Chapel), 12 x 14.8 cm. View of a small garden in the Charterhouse, 22.5 x 17.5 cm. The Dooser Bridge in Fürth. Series of 8 etchings from Nuremberg. Surroundings: Kugelhammer near Steinach. The destroyed nunnery near Gnadenberg (near Altdorf). Burgthann from the northwest, Burgthann from the southwest. Bavarian folk costumes from the area around Nuremberg, around 1800. List of his prospectuses see C. G. Müller, 1791, fort. II, pp. 9-12, 14, 17. MuS: COBURG: KS der Veste. NUREMBERG, MStN: Two drawings and prints. Lit.: AKL; Thieme-Becker; Nagler, KL and Monogr.; Müller-Singer; Schrötter, 1908; Bénézit 1976. Exhibition: 1906/2; 1979/6. Friedrich von Hagen (quoted from the Nuremberg Artists' Lexicon, edited by Manfred H. Grieb)Feedback geben