Julius Lange (painter)

Julius Lange (17 August 1817, Darmstadt – 25 June 1878, Munich) was a German landscape painter.

[2] In 1834, inspired by his older brother, the architect Ludwig Lange, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts Munich as a historical painter.

After only a short time, however, from 1836 to 1839, he switched to the Düsseldorf Art Academy, becoming a landscape painter as student of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, whose support enabled him to establish himself in Munich since 1840.

Once there, his financial success was insured by a number of sizable commissions and stays abroad in Milan and Venice: the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia ordered a series of sketches to be used in their landscape painting classes and the Brera Academy in Milan requested two large canvases.

[1] As his older brother Ludwig Lange, he is buried on the Old South Cemetery (Alter Südfriedhof) in Munich.