Albrecht Adam

Albrecht Adam
Albrecht Adam photographed by Franz Hanfstaengl around 1850
Born	(1786-04-16)16 April 1786 Nördlingen, Bavaria, Germany
Died	28 August 1862(1862-08-28) (aged 76) Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Resting place	Alter Südfriedhof
Known for	Painting

Albrecht Adam (16 April 1786 – 28 August 1862) was a Bavarian painter, who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte during the 1812 Russian campaign. He was attached as an official artist to the Bavarian contingent in Bonaparte's Grande Armée. Throughout the campaign he sketched, painted and depicted an important record of the campaign to Moscow. In his memoirs he described the carnage of Borodino and late into his career he was still painting battle scenes from the Napoleonic period. He became a well-known equine artist, a legacy continued by his grandson, Emil Adam.^[1][2]