Born in San Antonio, Texas, Julius Woeltz was a landscape painter, muralist and art teacher who had extensive preparation for his career. He studied with Wilson Nixon, Jose Arpa and Xavier Gonzalez in Texas, spent a year in Paris at the Academie Julian and then studied at the Art Institute of Chicago on two scholarships. For independent study, he traveled in Mexico and France.In 1932, he became Director of the art department at Sul Ross State Teachers College in Alpine, and two years later at the college began a series of large murals that depicted genre and landscape scenes of the Big Bend area in the region. From 1936 to 1940, he was in New Orleans where he taught at the New Orleans Art School. Then he moved to Amarillo where he completed six murals for the U.S. Post Office. In 1941, he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin and taught there for the next ten years, but he was on leave of absence during World War II as a member of the Army Air Corps stationed in San Antonio.Woeltz' exhibition venues were extensive and included the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas Watercolor Society, M. Knoedler & Company in New York City and the New Orleans Arts and Crafts Club.He died in San Antonio in 1956 and is buried in that city in the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. Studied: Wilson K. Nixon; José Arpa; Xavier Gonzalez; Académie Julian, Paris; Art Institute of Chicago; Mexico. Member: New Orleans Art Club; Texas Fine Arts Association; Texas Watercolor Society; Rio Grande Artists Group. Exhibitions: Arts and Crafts Club, New Orleans, 1926, (solo) (watercolors), 1933, (joint with Jorge A. Murillo and Caroline Durieux), 1934, (solo), 1935Housetops, Still Life (prize), 1936, (prize), 1937, (solo), including Rooftops. Puebla, Autumn Landscape, Table Etc., Landscape, Still LAfe, 1939Roofs, 1940Portrait-Dorothy Woelts, Warehouse Corner, Faculty Exhibition, Arts and Crafts Club, New Orleans, 1937, 1939, including Demolition Without Bombs, Warehouses, Landscape, 1940, 1946,Texas Landscape; Xavier Gonzalez Student Exhibition, Witte Memorial Museum, 1927Student Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, 1931Shore Line, Alley, Winter Street Scene, Parish House, Street Scene, Apples-Flask, Lincoln Park Zoo, Pier and Ship (watercolors), Lincoln Park (pencil, 1932Seated Nude; San Antonio Local Artists Exhibition, 1931Castroville, Lombara-Itinois (watercolors), 1932 (watercolor), 1933Landscape (watercolor), Sunny Glen Canyon, 1934, 1937Wind Mills, Armature, Still Life No. 1, 2, 1944Hurricane (prize); International Watercolor Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, 1932Goethe Street-Chicago, 1937, Landscape (gouache), 1939Landscape, 1941Texas Fine Arts Association, 1932Nude, 1933, 1942, 1946, 1947Factories, 1950Basic Training, 1951Picnic (prize), 1952Garage (gouache) (prize), 1953California Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1933Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, 1933, (solo)Mississippi Art Association, 1933Sunny Glen (prize), 1935, (prize)Sul Ross State Teachers College Library, 1934, joint with ravier Gonzalez); Reed Gallery, New Orleans, 1934, (solo) (watercolors)Artists of the Deep South, Boyer Gallery, Philadelphia, 1935Sophie Newcomb College Gallery, New Orleans, 1936, (solo)Southeast Texas Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1937Self-Portrait, Still Life (watercolors); Greater Dallas and Pan-American Exposition, Dallas, 1937Armature; Nine Louisiana Artists, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland, 1938Rio Grande Artists, San Antonio, Self-Portrait; Louisiana Artists, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1938, Interior (watercolor); American Art Today Exhibition, New York World's Fair, 1939, Roofs; Onya Latour Galleries, New York, 1939, (solo)Art Association of New Orleans, 1940Forty-Eight States Mural Competition, 1941, (honorable mention)Texas Colleges Art Faculty Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1942, Still Life (watercolor)Texas General/Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, 1942Slum Clearance, 1944Hurricane, 1946The Paper Bag, Basic Training (gouache), 1949Rectangles (prize), 1950Peregrination, 1952Mulatta (gouache); Texas Panorama Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1943Slum Clearance and American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition, 1944Slum Clearance; Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth, 1944National Painting Exhibition, Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans, 1947, (honorable mention), 1948Rectangles; Art Faculty Exhibition, University of Texas, Austin, 1947Fantasy (gouache), Rectangles, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1953Postcard From Mexico; Contemporary Regional Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, 1948American Paintings Today, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950Rectangles; Texas Artists, Texas Western College, El Paso, 1950Texas Watercolor Society, 1950, 1952Two Sketches (prize); American Painting 1950, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950Texas Contemporary Artists, M. Knoedler and Company, New York, 1952Beaumont General, 1952, (prize)Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1952Men of Art Guild, San Antonio, 1956, (gouache) Murals:United States Post Office and Court House Amarillo Cattle Loading, Cattle Branding, Oil, Gang Plow & Dick Harrow, Coronado's Exploration Party in the Palo Duro Canyon; United States Post Office, Elgin, Texas Farm; United States Post Office Benton, Arkansas, The Bauxite Mines; Austin Club, Commodore Perry Hotel, Austin; Sul Ross State University, Alpine; Buda Methodist Church; Headquarters, U.S. Army Air Force Training Command, Fort Worth; Aviation Cadet Center, San Antonio (five murals); Administration Building, Jackson Barracks, New Orleans. Collections: Dallas Museum of Art, Slum Clearance; Texas Fine Arts Association, Picnic; Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine; South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio.