Julius Woeltz

Julius Edwin Woeltz (1911–1956) was an American artist known for his murals and landscapes.

[1] Woeltz was born in San Antonio, Texas, where he first began his art studies under Jose Arpa and alongside Xavier Gonzales.

[2] He went on to attend the Academie Julian in France and later the Art Institute of Chicago.

[4] He regularly spent time in Mexico studying the muralists there, and appears to have been influenced by Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco.

[1] He died in San Antonio, Texas in 1956 and is buried in the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.