Junghanns, Julius Paul (1878 – 1958). Plowman. (1930s)

Oil on plywood
14,8 x 23,4
On the reverse – Prof. J. Junghanns
Julius Paul Junghanns was born in 1876 in Vienna into a Saxonian family living in this city. Very soon after his birth, his family returned to Dresden, where the future artist was to spend his childhood. In 1895, he graduated from an art school as a lithographer. In the next (1896) year he began studying in the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts; in 1899 moved to Munich, in order to become a pupil of animalist painter Heinrich von Zügel at the Munich Academy. Junghanns studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts until 1904. In 1904, recommended by his teacher von Zügel, he (he was 28 then) became the Head of the Animalist and Open-Air Painting of the Dusseldorf Academy. Two years later he received the title of a Professor. He taught at the Dusseldorf Academy until his retirement in 1945.
Julius Paul Junghanns has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the KODE Art Museums of Bergen. Many works by the artist have been sold at auction, including ‘Spring’ sold at Christie’s Amsterdam ‘Nineteenth Century Art’ in 2000 for $8,052. The artist died in 1958.