Julius Adam

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Julius Anton Adam, known as Cats Adam (Katzen-Adam in German), was a German painter born on 18 May 1852 and who died on 23 February 1913. He made pictures of everyday life and animals, especially cats. He came from the Munich Adam family of artists—his grandfather was Albrecht Adam, and his uncles Benno, Franz and Eugen, plus cousin Emil, were painters. His father, also named Julius Adam (1821–1874), was a lithographer and photographer. Julius first worked with his father in Rio de Janeiro, then returned to Munich to become a genre painter. He studied at the Munich Academy with Michael Echter and later Wilhelm von Diez. He began painting cats in 1882, a talent that brought him international fame and sometimes made people overlook his other work. He married his first cousin Amalie, daughter of his uncle Benno, but they had no children. A note on his grave says that, according to the monument for his grandfather Albrecht Adam in Munich, Julius’s grave lies next to it, but cemetery records do not list his burial.