Vintage - Cats in Gym Class,

Vintage artwork by Arthur Thiele depicting a scene in a school gym where cats (students) are taking turns doing pull-ups on a bar. The gym teacher (also a cat) is urging on one cat who doesn't seem to be able to pull himself up. Other cats are making fun of him and laughing. The German artist, Carl Robert Arthur Thiele (1860-1936) commonly went by the name Arthur Thiele. He was an illustrator of books, sheet music and postcards. He was famous for his comical anthropomorphic animals dressed in clothing and depicted in human-like scenes. Dachshunds were a favourite subject of his. In addition to animals, other subjects he illustrated were sports postcards, vegetables brought to life, snowmen, bathing beauties, and WW1 era propaganda postcards. The Internet is full of references confusing Carl Robert Arthur Thiele with another German painter of his time named Julius Arthur Thiele who painted landscapes. They are not the same artist. This card is blank inside for your own message.