Landscape and figure painter, Julius Christian Rehder was taught as a lithographer in Hamburg and worked in Berlin and Munich. From 1884-89 he studied at the Karlsruhe academy under F. Keller, thereafter until 1892 in Berlin as master student of A. von Werner. He lived and worked in Hamburg, Ettlingen and the United States. In 1892 he also was in the Ekensund artist's colony.

Julius Christian Rehder was born in 1861 in Frankfurt, Germany.

Julius Rehder operated primarily as a landscape and portrait painter.

He received his classical training in Karlsruhe under Ferdinand Keller and Berlin under Anton von Werner.

Rehder's works are characterized stylistically by the secessions of the century, playing with light and partly diffuse outlines.

Julius Rehder passed away in 1955.