Farrier’s Workshop on the Great Plain Richard Benno Adam

The Bavarian painter Richard Benno Adam was born into a well established and wide-branching German family of artists, with a tradition of equestrian painting that dated back several generations. Adam was an apprentice in his father’s workshop, and from a very young age he produced lithographs of his father’s paintings. Later he was commissioned by a number of Hungarian aristocrats to produce paintings of horses, and from 1899 he was appointed official painter to the Hungarian Hunting Society. In the First World War he served as a war artist, and these experiences led him also to paint military scenes.
The Hungarian Great Plain was a common setting for his works, including the painting entitled Farrier’s Workshop on the Great Plain, now in the Collection of International Art after 1800. Adam knew the Great Plain well, as he was a frequent guest on the estates owned by the Hungarian nobility. This painting originates from the estate of Count Dénes Andrássy.

Bianka Izsák-Boda