The art dealer was founded in 1880 by Julius Böhler (1860-1934), who acquired a property at Brienner Strasse 12, where he built anItalian palazzo style building.
In 1919, Julius Wilhelm Böhler moved to Lucerne, where he founded the "Kunsthandel AG Luzern" with Fritz Steinmeyer.
Still family-owned, the "Kunsthaus Julius Böhler" continues its tradition at the location in Starnberg under the management of Florian Eitle-Böhler.
The indexing and documentation of this data collection is supported by the Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation and the German Center for the Loss of Cultural Property.
[10] In 2004, the Burrell collection in Glasgow was told by a government panel to restitute an artwork that it had acquired through Julius Bohler.
La Pate de Jambon, attributed to Pierre Chardin, had belonged to a Jewish family who were forced to sell it under the Nazi regime [11] In 2011: Portrait of a young woman with a drawing instrument by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein was restitued to the Rosauer heirs by Dresden’s Gemäldegalerie.
[12] In 2012 the Landesmuseum Württemberg returned two renaissance clocks to the heirs of Eugen Gutmann, founder of the Dresdner Bank.
"The clocks had been the subject of a forced sale to the Nazi dealer Julius Böhler of Munich in 1942 by Gutmann's son, Fritz, who lived in The Netherlands and was subsequently deported with his wife and murdered.