Louis Kolitz

Louis Kolitz (5 April 1845, in Tilsit – 24 July 1914, in Berlin) was a German painter who worked in a wide variety of genres, including history painting, military art, portraits, landscapes and vedute.

His teachers included Oswald Achenbach, Karl Ferdinand Sohn and Eduard Bendemann.

After that, he worked as a portrait painter in Düsseldorf from 1872 to 1879 and was a member of Malkasten (paint box) a progressive artists' association.

He married Louise Cohnitz who was born into a jewish merchant family in 1872 and they had five children, including the painter, Hans Kolitz (1874–1961).

He continued to paint portraits, but also created murals for public buildings, all of which were destroyed during World War II.