Julius Wohlers - Artist Info

About Julius Wohlers

  • Biography

    Impressionist landscape, figure and still life painter, Julius Wohlers studied from 1886-89 at the Berlin Academy, and in 1890 he was the pupil of P. A. Schou in Copenhagen. Back in Hamburg he was among the founders of the Hamburgischer Künstlerclub in 1897.

    Since 1896 he made designs for the Scherrebek tapestry manufacture. Wohlers traveled to Paris in 1900. In the following year he became lecturer at the Hamburg Kunstgewerbeschule, and in 1926 he became professor at the Landeskunstschule.

    Almost his entire painted oeuvre was destroyed in the bombing of Hamburg in 1943; as a consequence the artist moved to the countryside. Wohlers was a teacher to most of the Hamburg plein-air painters of the first h...

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