Albrecht Adam was a Bavarian painter, who accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte during the 1812 Russian campaign. He was attached as an official artist to the Bavarian contingent in Bonaparte's Grande Armée. Throughout the campaign he sketched, painted and depicted an important record of the campaign to Moscow. In his memoirs he described the carnage of Borodino and late into his career he was still painting battle scenes from the Napoleonic period. He became a well-known equine artist, a legacy continued by his grandson, Emil Adam.
Albrecht Adam photographed by Franz Hanfstaengl around 1850
Soldiers Resting in a Village, A Cavalry Officer Holding an Austrian Banner, oil on canvas
Lithograph depicting Prince Eugene of Beauharnis crossing the river Neman 1812
Battle of Smolensk on 18 August 1812
Nördlingen is a town in the Donau-Ries district, in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, with a population of approximately 20,674. It is located approximately 115 km (71 mi) east of Stuttgart, and 145 km (90 mi) northwest of Munich. It was built in an impact crater 15 million years old and 25 km in diameter—the Nördlinger Ries—of a meteorite which hit with an estimated speed of 70,000 km/h, and left the area riddled with an estimated 72,000 tons of micro-diamonds.
Nördlingen, south view from the church tower Daniel
The Large Ofnet, one of the earliest sites with evidence of human habitation in the Nördlingen area.
The fortress walls of Nördlingen are well preserved.
"Little planet" panorama of Nördlingen