Willy Zügelartist • sculptorMünchen (Duitsland) 1876-1950 Murrhardt (Duitsland)

The South German sculptor Willy Zügel is known as a maker of animal sculptures. This artist mainly created small sculptures, which are included in various German museum collections, but also commissioned several monuments for the public space. At the same time, Zügel worked for famous porcelain factories, such as Rosenthal and Meissen, so that a wide audience became familiar with his work. He was no stranger to animals: his father, the painter Heinrich Johann von Zügel, also chose the animal as the main theme. Willy Zügel initially trained as a painter at the Munich academy under the guidance of his father, but from 1903 devoted himself to sculpting. The artist was a member of the Münchner Sezession from 1910.