Julius Woeltz

Julius Edwin Woeltz (1911–1956) was an American artist known for his murals and landscapes.

Biography Woeltz was born in San Antonio, Texas, where he first began his art studies under Jose Arpa and alongside Xavier Gonzales. He went on to attend the Academie Julian in France and later the Art Institute of Chicago.

Throughout his career, he painted several regional murals, notably a series of large murals in Alpine, Texas as well as six murals for the U.S. Post Office in Amarillo, Texas. He regularly spent time in Mexico studying the muralists there, and appears to have been influenced by Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. In his lifetime, his work was displayed in numerous exhibitions, including the Legion of Honor Museum, the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, and M. Knoedler & Company.

He died in San Antonio, Texas in 1956 and is buried in the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.

Works

Coronado’s Exploration Party in the Palo Duro Canyon