Julius Muhr : a portrait of his life

Julius Muhr, who in his time was a well-known and esteemed painter in Berlin, Rome, and Munich, is today forgotten. In order to rescue him from this oblivion, all accessible sources were consulted, and various materials were collected. An attempt has been made in this account to assemble this diverse material into a portrait of his life. The occasion for tracing the life and work of this particular painter was the fact that Julius Muhr was the great-great-uncle of the author’s husband. Although the author had already seen a watercolor by Muhr in 1935 in Hirschberg/Riesengebirge - depicting a sunlit Italian pergola - it wasn’t until forty years later, upon seeing his Gypsy Family in the Schack Gallery in Munich, that her interest in the painter was truly awakened, and the investigations began. These were concluded, for the time being, in August 1982 with the completion of this biography.