Edmund Adler - vendere e comprare opere
(Pseudonym: Edmund A. Rode)
15 October 1876, Vienna (Austria) - 10 May 1965, Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge (Austria)
Edmund Adler was an Austrian lithographer and painter who rose to prominence mainly due to his paintings that depicted scenery from everyday farm life.
The son of a farmer’s daughter from Zistersdorf, Adler studied under Professor Franz Würbel at the Art School for Lithography from 1892, and was also enrolled at the Graphic Teaching and Testing Institute in Vienna. He started work as a lithographer as a young man. Adler attended the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts from 1896 to 1903, where he was instructed by the historical and portrait painter Christian Griepenkerl. In 1904, Adler was awarded a fellowship after graduating from the Academy, which enabled him to spend a year in Rome. Adler moved with his family to Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge in 1910, where he had already spent numerous summer holidays. Conscripted in 1914, he was taken prisoner by the Russians shortly afterwards and did not return until 1920. During this period, he produced numerous sketches and studies of life in the prison camp. He was a portrait painter in the early phase of his artistic career; later on he earned a living through commissions from art galleries in Vienna and portrait studies of children’s scenes during the 1940s and 50s. Adler passed away in Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge on 10 May 1965. The artist’s estate has been exhibited in the Edmund-Adler-Galerie since 2006.
His works remain popular around the world and have been featured repeatedly in Dorotheum auctions.