Portrait of painter Josef Sigall with his wife Marie Sigall, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Portrait of painter Josef Sigall with his wife Marie Sigall, 1933

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Notes

Description

Josef Sigall was born in Poland. He was educated in Vienna and was a gold medalist at the Royal Art Academy during 1909-15. He lived in South America before moving to Los Angeles in 1926 and to Saratoga in 1930. He worked as a portrait painter in California. In the course of his career he painted portraits of presidents Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt, and Hollywood notables including the actress Pola Negri. According a Los Angeles Times report, March 2, 1933 pg. 4, the Sigalls divorced on March 1, 1933.
Portrait painter Josef Sigall with his wife Marie Sigall. Josef wears a double-breasted suit with a vest and Marie wears a felt hat and a coat with a fur collar and fur cuffs.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Sigall, Josef & wife. Artist, 1933

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
double portraits
cellulose nitrate film
Portrait photographs

Subjects

People
Arts

Names

Sigall, Josef, 1891-1953
Sigall, Marie, 1898 or 9-1951

Resource type

still image