biography of Julius C. ROLSHOVEN (1858-1930)

Birth place: Detroit, MI

Death place: NYC

Addresses: Paris, France; London, England; NYC/Florence, Italy

Profession: Painter, teacher

Studied: Cooper Union Art School, 1877; Hugo Crola in Düsseldorf, 1878; Loefftz in Munich, 1879; Duveneck in Florence; Académie Julian, Paris with T. Robert-Fleury, 1886-89.

Exhibited: NAD, 1885, 1889; Paris Salon, 1888-91; SNBA, 1892-95,1898-99; PAFA Ann., 1893, 1898-1902, 1905, 1928; AIC; Detroit, 1912 (North African paintings); S. Indp. A., 1918; Taos SA, 1922; Paris Expo, 1889 (medal), 1900; Pan-Am. Expo, Buffalo, 1901 (medal); medals, Munich, Berlin, Brussels, Chicago; St. Louis Expo, 1904 (medal); Société Française, Paris; Corcoran Gal biennials, 1907-26 (4 times).

Member: ANA, 1926; Soc. Nat. des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Secession, Munich; Detroit FAS; Intl. Artists Congress; Paris SAL; Scarab Cl., Detroit; Foreign AC, Florence; Bene Merensa Societa di Belle Arte, Florence; Taos SA, 1917 (assoc.), 1918 (active mem.); NAC.

Work: Cincinnati AM; Detroit Inst. Art; Minneapolis Mus.; BM; Detroit Athletic Cl.; Bohemian Cl.; Union Lg. Cl., Chicago; BMA; Montclair Mus.; Mus. New Mexico

Comments: One of the "Duveneck Boys" in Venice. He visited North Africa in 1910, the West in 1913 and honeymooned in New Mexico in 1916, where he stayed two years before returning to Florence. Teaching: life classes in Paris, 1890-95, and in London, 1896-1902.

Sources: WW29; P & H Samuels, 408; Eldredge, et al., Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945, 206; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 385-86; Falk, Exh. Record Series.