The Munich Academy and the Shadow of the Cathedral Munich, 1829. A life begins in the Kingdom of Bavaria, destined for the rigorous halls of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. By 1844, Adolf Baumann is a student, absorbing the technical discipline required of a professional painter. The trajectory of his career shifts when Johann von Schraudolph, tasked by King Ludwig I to decorate the Speyer Cathedral, takes the young student under his…