Adolf Eberle

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.

Musikalische Unterhaltung auf der Alm (Musical entertainment in the Alpine pasture, 1914)

Biography

Adolf Eberle: Eine erfolgreiche Jagd

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)

Paintings

• Paintings by Adolf Eberle
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  Die Dackelfamilie mit Jäger und Magd (Family of dachshunds with huntsman and girl)
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  Füttern der Hunde (Feeding the dogs)
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  Die Naturkunde-Stunde (Nature study)
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  The day's bag