{{Short description|German painter (1860–1920)}}

{{more citations needed|date=October 2021}} thumb|165px|Adolf Maennchen (c.1902) '''Theodor Gustav Alwin Adolf Maennchen''' (7 September 1860, Rudolstadt {{Endash}} 30 March 1920, Düsseldorf) was a German landscape and genre painter.

== Life and work == He was born to Carl Maennchen, a Master tanner, and his wife, Emilie née Güntsche. His younger brother, {{ill|Albert Maennchen|de|lt=Albert}}, also became a painter.

After serving an apprenticeship as a decorative painter, he plied his trade as a wandering journeyman in Germany and Austria. During this extended period, he also spent some time at the {{ill|Kunstgewerbeschule Dresden|de|lt=Dresden School of Applied Arts}} (1878-1879), and took night classes at the teaching institute of the {{ill|Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin|de|lt=Arts and Crafts Museum}} in Berlin (1880–1883). In 1883, he became a full-time student at the Berlin University of the Arts, which he attended until 1888. His instructors there included {{ill|Julius Ehrentraut|de}}, Paul Thumann, Otto Knille and Eugen Bracht.

He continued to work as a decorative painter while studying and, upon graduating, was able to make a study trip to Italy and North Africa. He travelled whenever possible; visiting Switzerland, the Netherlands and France. In Paris, he attended the Académie Julian, where he took lessons from Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury.

In 1896, he was awarded a small gold medal at the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung. He received another gold medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900), and held a major exhibition at the Glaspalast in 1901.

From 1889 to 1893, he was a teacher at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, then taught at the {{ill|Baugewerschule (Danzig)|de|Baugewerkschule|lt=Baugewerkschule}} in Danzig until 1901. The following year, he was named a Professor and head of the drawing classes at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.<ref>[https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kfa1902/0101 ''Personal- u. Atelier-Nachrichten: Düsseldorf.''] in: ''Die Kunst für alle.'' Band 17, 1902, S. 89 (Digitalisat Uni Heidelberg)</ref> He held those positions until 1918. thumb|335px|The Stone Breakers

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== Further reading == * {{Meyers-1905|13|231|231|spezialkapitel=Männchen, Adolf |kapiteltext=Männchen, Adolf}} * "Maennchen, Adolf", In: Friedrich von Boetticher: ''Malerwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts. Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte'', Vol.1/2, Heideck–Mayer, Boetticher’s Verlag, Dresden 1895, pp.&nbsp;928–929 ([https://archive.org/details/malerwerkedesne00boetgoog/page/928/mode/2up Online]) * "Maennchen, Adolf", In: ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', Vol. 23: Leitenstorfer–Mander, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1929

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