Born in San Antonio, Texas, Julius Woeltz was a landscape painter, muralist and art teacher who had extensive preparation for his career. He studied with Wilson Nixon, Jose Arpa and Xavier Gonzalez... Read full biography
Born in San Antonio, Texas, Julius Woeltz was a landscape painter, muralist and art teacher who had extensive preparation for his career. He studied with Wilson Nixon, Jose Arpa and Xavier Gonzalez in Texas, spent a year in Paris at the Academie Julian and then studied at the Art Institute of... Read full biography
Born in San Antonio, Texas, Julius Woeltz was a landscape painter, muralist and art teacher who had extensive preparation for his career. He studied with Wilson Nixon, Jose Arpa and Xavier Gonzalez in Texas, spent a year in Paris at the Academie Julian and then studied at the Art Institute of Chicago on two scholarships. For independent study, he traveled in Mexico and France. In 1932, he became Director of the art department at Sul Ross State Teachers College in Alpine, and two years later at... Read full biography
Born in San Antonio, Texas, Julius Woeltz was a landscape painter, muralist and art teacher who had extensive preparation for his career. He studied with Wilson Nixon, Jose Arpa and Xavier Gonzalez in Texas, spent a year in Paris at the Academie Julian and then studied at the Art Institute of Chicago on two scholarships. For independent study, he traveled in Mexico and France. In 1932, he became Director of the art department at Sul Ross State Teachers College in Alpine, and two years later at the college began a series of large murals that depicted genre and landscape scenes of the Big Bend area in the region. From 1936 to 1940, he was in New Orleans where he taught at the New Orleans Art School. Then he moved to Amarillo where he... Read full biography
Born in San Antonio, Texas, Julius Woeltz was a landscape painter, muralist and art teacher who had extensive preparation for his career. He studied with Wilson Nixon, Jose Arpa and Xavier Gonzalez in Texas, spent a year in Paris at the Academie Julian and then studied at the Art Institute of Chicago on two scholarships. For independent study, he traveled in Mexico and France. In 1932, he became Director of the art department at Sul Ross State Teachers College in Alpine, and two years later at the college began a series of large murals that depicted genre and landscape scenes of the Big Bend area in the region. From 1936 to 1940, he was in New Orleans where he taught at the New Orleans Art School. Then he moved to Amarillo where he completed six murals for the U.S. Post Office. In 1941, he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin and taught there for the next ten ye... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (5)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942
2000
Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward
606 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Annual & Biennial Exhibition Record of the Whitney Museum of Art (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1918-1989) (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor); Andrea Ansell Bien
468 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1940-1941, Volume III Contemporary American Artists