Artist: Adam Elsheimer (1578 - 1610)
Nationality: German
Movement:
Media: Painting,Drawing
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Biography:
Adam Elsheimer was born in Germany and grew up with the influence of the local painter, Gillis van Coninxloo. He moved to Rome in 1600 where he abandoned his early Mannerist tendencies for a more simplistic approach. He also admired the light and shadow technique of creating mood that was popularized by Caravaggio. Elsheimer painted on a small-scale, mostly on copper. He also invented a distinct variety of landscape that served as part of the composition, not just background. After making bad business decisions and partnering with a rich Dutch etcher, Elsheimer became overwhelmed with his misfortune and landed in debtor’s prison where he died in 1610.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Wenceslas Hollar, Adam Elsheimer, (after Meyssens), 17th century
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Saint Agnes (recto); Figure Studies (verso)
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Adam Elsheimer, La rencontre des prophetes Elie et Ardias ( The meeting of Elie and Ardias)...forty third plate in the book...Le MusÈe royal (Paris: P. Didot, l*ainÈ, 1818), vol. 2, 16th - 17th century
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Adam Elsheimer - Venus and Cupid 1600-1605 oil on copper The Fitzwilliam Museum German
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Adam Elsheimer - The Flight into Egypt c. 1605 oil on silvered copp Kimbell Art Museum German
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Adam Elsheimer - Minerva as patroness of Arts and Sciences 1600-1605 oil on copper The Fitzwilliam Museum German
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Jacob Matham, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, Eve offering apples to Adam, 1606
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Adam von Bartsch, Catalogue des estampes de J. Adam de Bartsch (Vienna: Tendlerä, 1818), 1818
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Albrecht Durer - Adam and Eve 1504 engraving Cincinnati Art Museum German
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Thomas Crawford - Adam and Eve 1855 marble Boston Athenaeum American
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Albrecht Durer - Adam and Eve 1504 engraving Carnegie Museum of Art German
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Lucas Cranach - Adam c. 1530 oil on panel The Art Institute of Chicago German
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Albrecht Durer - Adam and Eve 1504 engraving Smith College Museum of Art German
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Albrecht Durer - Adam and Eve 1504 engraving on ivory l The Art Institute of Chicago German
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Alex Katz - Adam and Eve 1985 charcoal Arkansas Arts Center American
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Fernando Botero - Adam and Eve 1973 pencil Arkansas Arts Center Colombian
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Lucas Cranach the Elder - Adam c. 1530 Oil on panel Norton Simon Museum German
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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn - Adam and Eve 1638 etching on paper The Art Institute of Chicago Dutch
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John Singleton Copley - Adam Babcock c. 1744 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Jan Polack - Adam and Eve in Paradise c. 1500 oil on panel Los Angeles County Museum of Art German
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John Faed - Expulsion of Adam and Eve 1880's oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art Scottish
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Jan Polack - Adam and Eve in Paradise c. 1500 oil on panel Los Angeles County Museum of Art German
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Domenichino - The Rebuke of Adam and Eve 1626 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Benjamin West - The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise 1791 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Albrecht D¸rer, Adam and Eve, 1504
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Johann Adam Klein, A Cow, 1817
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Adam, Chandelier, 1785 - 1800
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Jakob Steinhardt, Adam and Eve, 1954
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
George Biddle, Adam and Eve, 1926
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
A Roman Landscape with Figures, probably 1630s Goffredo Wals (German, born about 1595-1600, died about
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Francesco Bartolozzi, [Adam and Eve], 1792
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Adam Buck, Sapho, 1830
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Barthel Beham, Adam, 1524
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Adam von Bartsch, [Sheep], 1650
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Johann Adam Klein, Horse, 1813
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Johann Adam Klein, Bello, 1813
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Adriaen Isenbrandt, Adam and Eve, 16th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Cherubino Alberti , Expulsion of Adam and Eve, 1628
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Waldemar Swierzy, Adam Mickiewicz, 1978
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Thomas Nast, Adam"s Fall, 1876

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Adam Elsheimer Biographie biography
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