Adam Adolf Oberländer (1 October 1845, Regensburg – 29 May 1923, Munich) was a German caricaturist, illustrator, cartoonist and early comics artist.

He soon discovered that the true expression of his genius was in the field of caricature and comic drawings,[2] revealed in a humorous cartoon published in 1863 in the Fliegende Blätter.

[2] Other subjects are taken from mythology, fairy lore, fables, animal life and the customs and habits of the German middle class.

His works were collected in the Oberländer-Album, published by Braun and Schneider in Munich (1879–1901),[2] and reprinted a number of times, most recently by Rosenheimer in 1982 (ISBN 3475523590).

He was also a painter of some note, and pictures of his are in the galleries of Munich, Berlin, Dresden and other cities of Germany and in private collections.