Julo Levin

Julo Levin, originally Julius (5 September 1901, Stettin - 1943, KZ Auschwitz) was a German Expressionist painter of Jewish ancestry.

He studied at the Essen campus of the Folkwang University of the Arts with the Dutch artist, Johan Thorn Prikker; following him when he went to teach at the Royal Kunstgewerbeschule, Munich, in 1921.

Because of this, and his being Jewish, he was denied membership in the Reich Chamber of Culture, and was served with a "Malverbot" (painting forbidden) which put an end to his career.

[3] After 1939, he lived in Berlin, where he continued to teach drawing until 1942, when the Jewish community became a source of conscripted labor for the SS.

[6] In 1962, on the south side of the Golzheimer Friedhof [de], a memorial stone was erected in honor of Levin, Franz Monjau and Peter Ludwigs.