Adolf Seel

Adolf Seel studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Training under Wilhelm Sohn and Karl Ferdinand Sohn is recorded. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Work by Adolf Seel is recorded in the collections of National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Alte Nationalgalerie and Wallraf–Richartz Museum.

• Name — Adolf Seel • Born — 1 March 1829 • Died — 14 February 1907 • Education — Düsseldorf Academy of Arts • Known for — Painter, draughtsman, sculptor and print-maker • Style — Düsseldorf school of painting • Movement — Orientalist

• Illustration — Alhambra Seel visited the academy in Düsseldorf in 1844–50, where he trained under Wilhelm Sohn. He then continued to train one year in Paris, spent 1864 and 1865 in Italy, 1870 and 1871 Spain, Portugal, and the north coast of Africa as well as 1873 and 1874 the Orient, where he developed his preference for the architectural painting found rich food. Its pieces of architecture, particularly the Arab and Moorish buildings, are usually provided just as beautiful landscapes painted with a masterful perspective, lighting and coloring.

• Inside of a Byzantine church (1862), • Motive from San Marco in Venice, • The cloister of the cathedral to half in the winter (main picture), And later: • Taufkapelle in San Marco, • Lion yard of the Alhambra, • Arab yard in Cairo (1876, national gallery in Berlin) and • The Egyptian Harem (1878).