Adolf Eberle

Adolf Eberle (Munich, 1843 – Munich, 1914) was a German painter best known for genre scenes of farmers and huntsmen from Bavaria and the Tyrol. Born in Munich into a family of painters, since his father Robert Eberle was also an artist, he trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1860 under Karl von Piloty.

His first success came the following year with Pfändung der letzten Kuh (Mortgaging the Last Cow), an image later engraved by William Unger. After a period depicting soldiers of the Thirty Years' War and the Seven Years' War, he returned to scenes of rural life in Bavaria and the Tyrol. At the 1879 international exhibition in Munich, his Erster Rehbock (First Stag) was well received.

His paintings have fetched notable prices at auctions after his death, including at Bonhams in San Francisco in 2007 and at Christie's in London in 2012. In 1952 a street in the Munich neighbourhood of Solln, the Eberlestraße, was named after him.