4440 - Benno Kögl, Cat Family

Benno Kögl, Cat Family a small wooden cat’s hut by the undergrowth, surrounded by a family of six kittens, three of whom are looking directly at the viewer, one drinking milk from a bowl, and two others watching the others, in the style of Julius Adam the Younger, oil on canvas, mid-20th century, signed lower right, in need of light cleaning, in a stuccoed frame, inner dimensions 18.5 x 24 cm. Artist information: real name Benedikt Paul Kögl, sometimes Kögel, known as ‘Katzenkögl’, German painter (1892, Greding in Middle Franconia - 1973, Nymphenburg), initially self-taught in art, in 1919 the family moved to Munich, where he eventually became a pupil of Hans von Hayek and Philipp Röth; he formed a friendship with fellow painters Alexander Köster, Ludwig Müller-Cornelius and Fritz Halberg-Krauss; produced mainly paintings of cats, which were primarily exported to the USA; member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany; worked in Munich-Nymphenburg; source: Saur “Bio-Bibliographical Artists’ Encyclopaedia”, Bruckmann, *Munich Painters of the 19th/20th Centuries*, Dressler and Wikipedia.