 Complete the following phrase:  Albrecht Adam was born in Nördlingen, then a small free state in southern Germany, to Jeremias Adam and Margaretha Thilo in 1786. His brother Heinrich Adam 17871862, also a painter was born the following year. Albrechts talent for painting became apparent at an early age as by 1800 he was painting French troops as they marched through southern Germany. Initially apprenticed as a confectioner in Nuremberg, in 1803 he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg where he was tutored in drawing by Christoph Zwinger 17641813. In July 1807 he moved to Munich where he learnt from the war and battle artist Johann Lorenz Rugendas II 17751826. and befriended fellow artists Margarethe Geiger and Sophie Reinhard, who later moved with him to Vienna. In 1809 Austria attacked Napoleons ally Bavaria, an action that led to a short, unpleasant conflict that culminated in Austrian defeat by France and Bavaria at the 