The French painter Lucien Adrion completed an apprenticeship as a technical draughtsman in his home town of Strasbourg between 1905 and 1908, before working as a fashion illustrator in Paris, Munich, Frankfurt, Berlin and London. During the First World War, he served in the German Army. In 1918, he then took French citizenship. In the same year, he took lessons in Berlin from the etcher Prof. H. Stuck and moved back to Strasbourg a year later. In 1920, he finally went to Paris and was supported by the gallery owners Chéron, Libande and Bigne. Until 1939, Adrion undertook many journeys to Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Algeria, Spain and Monte Carlo.