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After attending a watchmaking school, Adam worked in his father's jewelry studio from 1918 on. In 1925 he attended evening classes at the Germain Pilon drawing school, then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He worked as a drawing teacher for the city of Paris and created satirical drawings and political caricatures. In 1934 the artist turned to copperplate engravings and etchings. In the same year he had his first solo exhibition. He associated with the Surrealists, with Breton, Aragon and Eluard. In 1936 he created an expressionist series of copperplate engravings on the Spanish Civil War and joined the Association of Revolutionary Writers and Artists (AEAR), where he met Estève, Nenassier, Pignon and Arpard Szènes. He took part with Picasso, Matisse, Dufy and Chagall in the group exhibition on July 14 by Romain Rolland. In 1939 he was drafted and taken prisoner. As a nurse in Besançon, he drew soldiers and injured people. From 1942 Adam dealt with sculpture. His sculptural work, initially figurative, increasingly turned to the purity of lines and surfaces. In 1943 he was one of the secret founders of the "Maisalon", and he designed sets and costumes for "Les mouches" by Sartre, staged by Charles Dullin. Adam became friends with Pablo Picasso, who gave him his Paris studio and his castle in Le Boisgeloup. Adam designed templates for tapestries from 1947 onwards. An exhibition of his complete works took place in the Maeght Gallery in 1949. The La Hune gallery-bookstore exhibited his copperplate engravings in 1952. From 1950 to 1955 he worked as a drawing teacher in Anthony Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In 1956 and 1957 Adam realized his famous series of copper engravings "Dalles, sables et eau" and the sculptures "Mutations marines". He created tapestries for the French Embassy in Washington and UNESCO. "Le signal", 1961 erected in front of the Museum of Le Havre, is one of his first monumental sculptures. Adam became a teacher of copperplate engraving in 1959 and then head of the sculpture department. Appointed workshop of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Exhibitions of his oeuvre have been shown in various French and European museums. In 1961 he realized his series of sculptures "Cryptogrammes". A retrospective of his oeuvre took place in 1966 at the Musée national d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris.
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