Kaspar Kögler

As the eldest son, he was expected to succeed his father, but he displayed a degree of artistic talent that led him on a different career path.

From 1856 to 1861, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, with Moritz von Schwind and Josef Bernhardt [de], among others.

[1] He left Munich before completing his studies, and worked as an itinerant church painter in the areas around Vorarlberg, Liechtenstein and Graubünden.

He also began working as an illustrator, initially with several popular family magazines such as Über Land und Meer, the Fliegende Blätter and Die Gartenlaube.

[3] A particularly notable assignment involved decorations at the Hessisches Staatstheater (1894), for which he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle by Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Self-portrait (1920)
The Salvation of Humanity, from Die Gartenlaube (1878)
The Mocking of Christ in a Carnival Setting