Watercolor, paper; size: 24 x 35 cm signed p.d.: Juliusz Holzmüller. Unframed work.
LIFETIME
Polish painter. From 1897 he studied decorative painting at the Lviv State Industrial School, his lecturers were Roman Bratkowski, Stanislaw Jozef Rejchan and Tadeusz Rybkowski. In parallel, from 1898, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in the studios of Jozef Mehoffer, Florian Cynk and Teodor Axentowicz. In 1904 he interrupted his studies for a year and left to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He graduated in 1906 and settled in Lviv, where he worked for a living, as a drawing teacher. He exhibited his works with the Cracow Society of Friends of Fine Arts, at the Warsaw Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts and in Lviv.
He created landscapes and city views, but went down in history as a painter of horses. These included battle scenes involving Japanese cavalry, outdoor scenes showing studs and horses against a natural background. He created a series of paintings commissioned by Prince Otto Habsburg, which was placed in the hunting pavilion in Rafaelova. A painting showing Japanese horsemen in action adorns the officers' casino in Tokyo. Julian Holzmüller's most common technique was watercolor, and less often he used ink or tempera.
COLLECTIONS
The artist's works are in the collections of museums in Krakow, Lańcut, Lviv and others.
