Juliusz Holzmuller and his watercolors

 Salvete Omnes,

today a short entry with yet another Polish horse painter. 

Juliusz Holzmuller was a Polish watercolor, gouache, and ink painter active during the first part of the XX century.
Maestro Juliusz was born in Bolechow (now in Ukraine) in 1876, the year George Custer and his command died at Little Big Horn in Montana.

 

He went to school in Lwow (about 90 km from his hometown), known then as the C.K. State Industrial School, where he studied decorative painting with  professors and artists like Roman  Bratkowski, Stanisław Józef  Rejchan , and Tadeusz  Rybkowski. Then in 1898 he became a student at the Krakow's Fine Art Academy with Florian Cynk,  Józef  Mehoffer  i Teodor  Axentowicz etc where he studied until finishing his academic studies in 1906. In 1903 through 1904 he took one year leave or 'sabbatical'  from his Krakow studies and went on to study at the Munich Art Academy.
Upon terminating his studies he settled in Stanislawow (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine), where he worked a teacher of drawing at the town's middle and high schools etc. He showed his work at Krakow Society of Friends of Fine Arts and other venues throughout  partitioned Poland. He eventually moved to Lwow, here he became a drawing teacher at the Nikolaus Copernicus' 1st State (c.k.) High School. He painted large size watercolors, and one of them, showing Japanese Imperial cavalry, was purchased for the officer club in Tokyo, where it may still be surviving.
Also he painted portraits  of the famous Taurow Polish Arabian stud farm* horses at the request of Longin Łobos, nephew of the founder, Dionizy Trzeciak. Pan Juliusz passed away in 1932 in Lwow, 7 years before his world become no more (Soviet, Germand and Ukrainain UPA eradication of the Poles in this beautiful land of Red Ruthenia aka eastern LittlePoland.

He painted horses, horse people, Huculs and local topics like markets or hunting, also landscapes and many other topics.

 

You can explore - via your browser's search engine - his watercolors and other works in various galleries and auction houses around the Internet.

Hucul wedding party

Hucul wedding party with musicians

Valete

*Taurow stud farm and estate was located in the vicinity of Taurow village in present day Ukraine, 28 km north-west of Brzezany,  Tarnopol oblast,