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Adolf Gustav Schweitzer was a German painter who specialised in winter landscapes.
Adolf Eberle was a German painter of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is known as a genre painter and animalist.
Adolf Eberle specialized in depicting rural life, especially Bavarian and Tyrolean farmers and hunters. Early in his career, he was interested in historical subjects, but quickly returned to depicting peasant and animal life. His painting "The Sale of the Last Cow" brought him his first great success in 1861, and in 1879 at the Munich exhibition his work "The First Deer" was highly praised by the jury.
Adolf Konrad Walter Bock was a twentieth-century German painter. He is known as a marine painter.
Adolf Bock, as a sailor in the German Navy, in 1912 accompanied Emperor Wilhelm II on a voyage to the Mediterranean and received, as an artist, the support of the Kaiser. In the interwar period he carried out commissions for steamship companies, publishing houses and magazines. In Nazi Germany his work was also valued, and he received a professorship personally from Hitler. During the Second World War, the artist survived being on the port side of the sunken liner Wilhelm Gustloff and later created prints on the subject of the disaster.
