Adolf Erbslöh (27 May 1881, New York – 2 May 1947, Icking) was a German Expressionist painter; one of the founders of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München.

His father, Gustav Adolf (1844-1900), was a junior partner in the export firm, Dieckerhoff, Raffloer & Co., and spent fifteen years at their New York office; returning to Barmen in 1887.

[1] The year after his father's death, he abandoned his business career to attend the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, where he studied with Ernst Schurth [de] and Ludwig Schmid-Reutte.

[3] That same year, he was elected the association's Chairman, upon the resignation of Wassily Kandinsky, who helped co-found a competing art group, "Der Blaue Reiter".

The following year, he was chosen to be a war painter for the regimental staff in Verdun but, as there was no such official position for non-commissioned officers, he was employed as an assistant clerk.