Biography from American Eagle Fine Art:
| Birth place: Munich, Germany
Addresses: Chicago, IL
Profession: Painter, mural painter, architect, writer, educator
Studied: Nürnburg; Munich; Rudolf von Seitz.
Exhibited:
Art Institute of Chicago, 1931-41; Corcoran Gallery biennials, 1935,
1937; Chicago Painters & Sculptors, 1937 (prize); Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, Annual, 1939
Member: Chicago Gallery Association.; Chicago Painters & Sculptors.
Work:
Union Lg. Club, Chicago; Courthouse, Leipzig; Kurhouse, Kissingen;
Court Theatre, Stuttgart; Kunstlerhouse, Munich; Jury Room, Nürnberg;
murals, Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Chicago
Comments: At the age of
15, he was executing architectural decoration in an academic style,
working with architects in Germany. After moving to the U.S., he
continued to paint murals, but turned to easel painting as well.
Sources:
WW40; American Art at the Union League Club of Chicago: A Centennial
Exhibition (Chicago, 1980): 24-25; Falk, Exhibition Record Series.
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Biography from Field Museum Of Natural History:
| The painter Julius Moessel completed the eighteen murals in The Field Museum's Plants of the World
exhibit comparatively late in his career. Moessel was one of the
Chicago art scene's most notable figures from the late 1920s through
the 1950s--but the Chicago years were actually a second career for the
German artist.
Born in 1871 in Fürth, Moessel studied at the Munich
Academy under Rudolph von Seitz, and while still in his twenties
established a successful career as a muralist and painter of
architectural decoration. Murals in the Jury Room at Nuremberg (site of
the famed war trials), the Court Theater at Stuttgart, and the City
Hall at Leipzig are but three of the prolific painter's more notable
German projects.
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