Adolf Lüben

(Saint Petersburg 1837–1905 Munich)
A Poacher, signed A. Lüben, oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm, framed

Provenance:
Private Collection, Germany.

Exhibited:
Munich Annual Exhibition, Glaspalast, 1898;
"Na Pytlácké steze, 9 October 2021 - 20 February 2022, Castle Vsetin, Czech Republic.

Catalogued in:
Friedrich von Boetticher, Malerwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts, Hofheim am Taunus 1979, vol. I, 2, p. 939, no. 35.

The genre painter Adolf Lüben was born in 1837 in St. Petersburg to German parents and began his artistic training in 1853 under Eduard Holbein at the Academy in Berlin. He subsequently pursued further studies in Antwerp and Düsseldorf. After completing his education, Lüben first worked in Berlin, and from 1876 settled in Munich, where he encountered the Piloty school. There he broadened his repertoire to include depictions of Bavarian and Tyrolean folk life. His art achieved wide circulation through wood engravings and photographic reproductions published in contemporary journals. Lüben died in Munich in 1905.