Julius Scholtz

Gottfried Julius Scholtz (12 February 1825, Breslau - 2 May 1893, Dresden) was a German history and portrait painter.

He initially studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, with Julius Hübner, and had his first exhibition there in 1858.

In 1870, he received several offers to become an honorary Professor, from Kassel, Königsberg and Weimar, while the academies in Berlin and Munich named him a member.

This may have prompted the Dresden Academy to offer him a well-paid academic teaching post but, rather than assign him the studio being vacated by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, he was placed in a room with three other teachers.

When the restoration of the Albrechtsburg was nearing its final phase, in 1873, eleven local artists, including Scholtz, were commissioned to provide decorative paintings.