Adolf Kaufmann was born in Troppau in 1848. After initial self-taught studies, Adolf Kaufmann traveled to Paris in order to undertake further training with French colleagues. In the studio of Emile van Marke de Lummen, he got to know the "paysage intime" after the Barbizon school. Under the pseudonym "Guyot" he visited various salons and received numerous orders from the Parisian society. He spent the years between 1870 and 1890 mainly on trips through Europe and the Orient. He lived in Paris, Berlin, Düsseldorf and Munich.
In 1890 Kaufmann became a resident in Vienna. He founded a painting school for women and, as a member, provided the exhibitions in the Künstlerhaus and in the Munich Glass Palace with his work.
Landscapes, and above all insights into deep forests at all seasons of the year, were his preferred motifs. For the Paris World's Fair 1900, he was commissioned to create a large diorama from Sarajevo. The success he achieved brought him further large orders. Thus, Kaufmann created a colossal painting for the sultan with the "Entry into the port of Constantinople". Further prizes and medals followed. Adolf Kaufmann died in Vienna in 1916.
