Biography

Rosemarie Adcock was born weeks after her family immigrated to the United States from Germany and Austria through Canada. Between 1978 and 1980, she studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago under Eugene Hall, an apprentice of the Russian painter, Alexander Zlatoff-Mirsky, who was himself an apprentice to the Russian master, Ilya Repin. After Hall's death, she studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and drawing in 1987. She received a full housing & tuition scholarship from the Minister of Culture of Baden-Wurtenberg, Germany, and studied nearly two years at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. Her certificate of study under the director Klaus Arnold, and also Max Neumann, guest professor for the class of Professor Markus Lupertz, was in printmaking and monumental painting.

Her exhibition of over 120 paintings of Russian peasants toured in the United States and Western Europe for over 7 years. After the resulting acquisition of relief assistance of over $1.25 million in gift-in-kind donations for orphans and impoverished families, the artist founded the charitable organization, Arts for Relief and Missions in 1993.

The artist’s current work is a series exploring rich color and traditional themes in lush garden settings. All of the artist's work is noted for its full, rich use of color, and rapid execution. This ability is occasionally seen in works done as performance during concerts.

The artist’s paintings are in numerous private and corporate collections in the United States and Western and Eastern Europe. She has exhibited extensively, her most recent shows being a two-person exhibition at Princeton Theological Seminary, and a one-person exhibition in Florida, where she also lives with her husband, the Rev. Ed Adcock.