Julius Adam d. J.

Julius Adam d. J.

pseudonym: -

birth data

date of birth: 1852

place of birth: München

death data

date of death: 1913

death: ebenda

biography

The animal painter Julius Adam became mainly known for his paintings with kittens, earning him the nickname Kittenadam. He was born in Munich in 1852 into the important family of painters Adam. His father Julius Adam the elder was a photographer and lithographer and he trained his son early in his business. At the age of fourteen, Julius Adam the younger travelled to Rio de Janeiro and worked there as a landscape photographer. Six years later, he returned to Munich and studied at the School of Applied Arts under Michael Echter and in 1874 he took the natural and landscape class at the Art Academy. This was followed by an intensive apprenticeship under the influential colourist and representative of the Munich School of Painting Wilhelm von Diez. Initially, Julius Adam devoted himself primarily to genre painting until his cat pictures found great success in the mid-1880s and from then on he dedicated himself to paintings with animals. The highly esteemed and award winning painter Julius Adam died in 1913 in Munich.