Early Life, Family and Training Max Adamo was born in Munich on November 3, 1837. He grew up in a household where records and history held weight, as his father, Max Joseph Adamo, served as a Ministerial Archivist. Art ran in the family; his brother, Albert Adamo, also pursued a life as a genre painter. After finishing his schooling at a Munich Gymnasium, Max Adamo moved toward the Academy of Fine Arts in his hometown to begin his for…