Julius Bretz (1870 - 1953)

Julius Bretz

Julius Bretz was a German painter of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. He is known as a painter and graphic artist, a painter of landscapes and floral still lifes, a representative of the Düsseldorf and Hague Schools.

Julius Bretz was one of the four founders of the Düsseldorf art association Sonderbund and a founder of the Rhine Secession. He was also a member of the artist association "Malkasten" and a member of the Cologne and Bonn artist associations.

Bretz's paintings can be seen today in art museums in Bonn, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Wuppertal, Zurich and other cities