Franz Adam (May 4, 1815 – September 30, 1886) was a German painter, chiefly of military subjects, born and swift for much of his activity in Italy.
Adam was born in Milan, Italy, to painter Albrecht Adam, a German who had spent the prior several years in Italy. Franz Adam’s first notable con was a accrual of lithographs upon the Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states, done jointly later than noted lithographer Denis Auguste Marie Raffet. He painted his first masterpiece during the Second Italian War of Independence of 1859, a scene from the Battle of Solferino. His best-known works, meanwhile, depict the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
Of Adam’s students, Josef Brandt was the most notable. Adam next taught painting to his nephew, Emil Adam. His brothers Benno and Eugen were after that painters.
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