Adolf Mosengel

Adolf Mosengel (1 January 1837 – 12 June 1885) was a landscape painter from Hamburg, Germany. He initially built a reputation painting Alpine scenes, and later turned to scenes from Westphalia. In 1861, before settling in Hamburg, where he joined the Hamburg Artists' Association. In 1879, he travelled to the lakes of Northern Italy, where he painted en plein air. Besides Leopold Rau, Mosengel is likely the only painter Nietzsche knew personally.

Mosengel died on 12 June 1885, aged 48.