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Julius Rolshoven

Julius Rolshoven (1858 - 1930) was active/lived in New Mexico, Michigan / Europe.  Julius Rolshoven is known for Portrait, figure, genre and landscape painting.

Born on 28 October 1858 in Detroit, the son of a jeweler, Julius Rolshoven enrolled at the Cooper Union Art School after being rejected by the National Academy of Design in 1876.  Two years later, he was at the Düsseldorf Academy under Hugo Crola (1841-1910), a portraitist.  Rolshoven transferred to Munich to study under Ludwig von Löfftz, then he became one of the "Duveneck Boys" and spent a year in Venice and some time in Florence. The Detroit Institute of Arts has his Florentine Boys (1884). He moved to Paris, now with a Venetian bride, to study at the Académie Julian where his teachers were Bouguereau and Robert-Fleury.  For Rolshoven, things were looking brighter and he must have felt vindicated when the works he shipped from Paris ended up on the walls of the National Academy for their annual exhibitions of 1885 and 1889.  Also in 1889, Rolshoven won a second-class silver medal at the Paris Universal Exposition (though his name does not appear in the of   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11191 characters.]  Artist bio

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