Adolf Dahle studied in Berlin and study visits took him to Italy, Greece, and Africa. He was one of those artists who were supported by the SS during World War II. In 1944 he was part of an exhibition called “German Artists and the SS”, whose catalog included a foreword by Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler. He was renowned as a painter of horses and equestrian representations and as a designer of stained glass. Polo was a painting in oil on cardboard in the size 125 x 160 cm. It was donated to the Berlinische Galerie by the painter’s family.
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