Adolf Schlabitz

From 1875 to 1882, he was enrolled at the Prussian Academy of Arts, where he studied with Paul Thumann, Otto Knille, Karl Gussow and Ernst Hildebrand, among others.

With the help of a scholarship, awarded for his painting of a trial in the Breslau District Court, he was able to continue his studies at the Académie Julian in Paris, with Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger.

Upon returning to Germany, he lived in Munich for three years, then opened a private art school in Berlin.

In 1907, he created a monumental mural, depicting a scene from the life of Martin Rinckart, for the Martin-Rinckart-Gymnasium [de] (formerly the Royal Gymnasium) in Eilenburg, He also worked as an assistant to Ernst Henseler [de] at Technische Hochschule Berlin (today Technische Universität Berlin), until 1908.

In 1935, he joined the Ateliergemeinschaft Klosterstraße [de], a service of the Reichskulturkammer, which provided studio space for approved artists.