Julius Adam

At first Adam (the son) was occupied with landscape photography and worked for his father's business in Rio de Janeiro but later returned to Munich and settled down as a genre painter.

Initially Adam was a pupil of Prof. Michael Echter (1812–1879), later of Wilhelm von Diez (1839–1907) at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich.

He began producing his successful cat pictures in 1882, the international popularity of which caused the high quality of his other work to be somewhat overlooked.

He married his first cousin Amalie, daughter of his uncle Benno, but they had no children.

According to the inscription on the monument of Julius Adam's grandfather, Albrecht Adam (1786 – 1862), in the Alter Südfriedhof in Munich (Gräberfeld 27 - Reihe 1 - Platz 25/26), Julius's grave is next to it, but the cemetery registers have no record of the burial.

"Entre Nous" (self-portrait with kittens) by Julius Adam (lithograph of 1911 oil on canvas)
Die Einquartierung ("Occupying New Quarters") (c. 1890)
Grave of Albrecht Adam and his sons in the Alter Südfriedhof in Munich