Julius Stockfleth (1857 - 1935)

Julius Stockfleth

Julius Stockfleth was a Denmark-born painter of landscapes and marine subjects, who settled in Galveston in 1885 and painted the city's docks, harbor, and ships. He created a series of paintings documenting the city during the 1900 hurricane and its subsequent rebuilding, which are the only known contemporary paintings of the disaster. Stockfleth left some 100 paintings of Texas subjects painted in a naïve realist style. After living in Galveston for two decades, he returned to Germany in 1907 and painted local scenes until his death. His work is in the collection of the Rosenberg Library.

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