Background
Sigall, Joseph De was born on May 18, 1892 in Brodi, Poland. Son of Simon and Martha (Braun) Sigall.
Sigall, Joseph De was born on May 18, 1892 in Brodi, Poland. Son of Simon and Martha (Braun) Sigall.
Student Lemberg Gymnasium, 1902-1909, Imperial and Royal Art Academy, Vienna, 1909-1913 (gold medal), Royal Art Academy, Munich, 1913-1914. Faculty of medicine Vienna University, 1910-1913. Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University of South Dakot, 1926.
Doctor of Laws, Santa Clara (California) College, 1934.
A.F.D., University of Southern California, 1934. Doctor of Letters, Webster University, 1935.
Doctor of Philosophy, Universite Philotechnique, Belgium, 1935. Doctor of Science, Andhra Research University of India, 1936.
;Came to the United States, 1922. Began as portrait painter, 1914. Painted Emperor Francis Joseph, and Emperor Karl, of Austria, Emperor William of Germany, Admiral Horty (Regent of Hungary), Grand Duke Kirill of Russia, Marcello de Alvear (President of Argentina), President and Mistress Coolidge, and President and Mistress Hoover, the members of President Hoover’s Cabinet and their wives, Senator Phelan and Senator McAdoo of California, Archbishop Hanna, Helen Wills Moody, Doctor Ray Lyman Wilbur, members of the Chrysler, Stotesbury and Vanderbilt families, and many others in America.
Society portrait painter, never sending any portraits to any exhibits in America.
Served as captain 4th Lancer Regiment, Austro-Hungarian Army, World War, wounded 3 times. Member Academie Latine, Arts et Belles Lettres (France), Academia Hispano Americano (Spain), Institut Heraldique de France, Geography Society (Portugal).
Married Mary Stauffer, September 13, 1929 (divorced 1933).