A Life Shaped by Earth and War Born into a family of farmers and vintners in Laufen, Adolf Riedlin’s early years were rooted in the soil of the Breisgau region. His path toward the brush began not with high theory, but through a practical apprenticeship as a painter and decorator in Freiburg, which he completed in 1910. This foundation in craft provided a disciplined hand that would later navigate much more complex aesthetic territori…