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Adalbert John Volck was born on April 14, 1828, in Augsburg, Bavaria, and was one of two sons of Andrew von Volzeck, a prominent manufacturer and landowner.
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Adalbert John Volck was born on April 14, 1828, in Augsburg, Bavaria, and was one of two sons of Andrew von Volzeck, a prominent manufacturer and landowner.
Volck studied at the Polytechnic Institute, Nurnberg, and perhaps at the University of Munich, participated in the march on Berlin in 1848, and was forced to flee because of his revolutionary sympathies.
In 1849, penniless and without friends, he landed in America, where he lived first in St. Louis, Missouri, and then joined the gold rush.
In 1851, he was recommended to Dr. Chapin A. Harris, one of the founders of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, for appointment as an instructor. In 1852, having studied as well as taught, he received the degree of D. D. S.
Volck was a charter member of the Maryland State Dental Association, one of the first users of porcelain in the filling of teeth, and a founder of the Association of Dental Surgeons. He was instrumental during the Civil War in getting medicine into the South. During the war, in an effort to combat the activities of Thomas Nast, Northern caricaturist, Volck made a series of caricatures favorable to the South under the pseudonym of V. Blada.
Notable among these are drawings of Lincoln and Gen. Benjamin F. Butler as "Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, " of Lincoln passing through Baltimore on his way to his inauguration, and of Gov. Thomas Hicks of Maryland as "Judas. " He is said to have drawn the head of Jefferson Davis for the ten-cent stamp of the Confederacy, but it is probably the work of his brother, Frederick Volck, a sculptor. His caricatures of General Butler, by whose orders he had been incarcerated in Fort McHenry in 1861, were used to defeat Butler when he was a candidate for the governorship of Massachusetts.
After the war, his interest in political satire, for which he had a marked natural gift, seems to have died. His portrait in oils of Robert E. Lee (1870) is in the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Va. About 1880 he became interested in working in bronze and silver.
He died on March 26, 1912, in Baltimore, survived by two daughters and a son.
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Volck was married on July 6, 1852, to Letitia Roberta Alleyn of Baltimore, Maryland, by whom he had two sons and three daughters.