Adolf Oberländer

Adolf Oberlander ( born October 1, 1845 in Regensburg, † May 29, 1923 in Munich) was a Bavarian painter and draftsman and pupil of Ferdinand von Piloty. He was married to Anna Elisabetha Johanna Helene Sophie Scheurlin ( born August 12, 1844), the youngest daughter of the poet George Scheurlin.

Wilhelm Busch influenced his illustrations that was published by Braun & Schneider for the most part. Especially his humorous and satirical depictions of human behavior were known. These were often designed as anthropomorphisiserende animal drawings. Oberlander recorded especially for the flying leaves, an illustrated, humorous weekly. Later, he also worked for the Munich picture sheet.

He created more illustrations for Franz Bonn's "Funny or natural history Zoologica comica " (1877 ), "Every little creature has its Pläsierchen " (1888 ) by Edwin Bormann and " Oh, these children" ( 1894) by Georg Boetticher.

Among his best known works include the Series edge drawings from the copybook of the small Moritz, which were published from 1880 to 1900. The top country album came from in 1879.

He was commissioned by the Cologne Chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck collecting images for Stollwerck scrapbooks, including the series "Adventures of a frog " for the Stollwerck Scrapbook no. 4 of 1899.