Julius Rolshoven (

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, 28 October 1858 –

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, 8 December 1930) was an American painter.

Biography

Rolshoven was born and raised in Detroit. At 18 he went to New York City to study at the

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Art School, then the Düsseldorf Academy, then continued on to Munich, studying under the Kentucky-born artist

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in his Venice and Florence schools, becoming one of the "Duveneck Boys". After some years in Paris and London, Rolshoven decided to settle in

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in 1902. In 1905, while he was drawing outdoors, he discovered a building that had maintained the old charm of a castle, called "Devil's Castle" and belonged to the family Talani. The artist was so enthusiastic of the environment that in 1907 he bought the property in state of disrepair. Finally Rolshoven returned to the United States at the beginning of

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. In December 1915 he married his second wife Harriette Haynes Blazo in

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. By 1916 Rolshoven had settled in the American southwest, setting up a studio in Santa Fe's Governor's Palace. He was also an early member of the

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. From 1920 until his death he moved back and forth among his three residences, Florence, Detroit and Santa Fe. He died on shipboard in the Atlantic. "He lived for 40 years in Florence, Italy, his adopted home, re-converting a 900-year-old home, "Castello del Diavolo" into an estate so splendid that an impressed Italian government designated it as a national monument". In September 1957 Mrs. Rolshoven, the artist's widow, signed an agreement for a total donation in favor of the

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of $100,000, of which $15,000 immediately and the remaining $85,000 to be paid later and from her assets; in addition, she donated twenty works made by her husband, which were prudently estimated at approximately between $50,000 and $75,000.Cf. A. D. CLARK, ''21 Rolshoven Canvases Are Presented To University'', The New Mexican, Sunday, September 15, 1957, p. 5. Julius Rolshoven - 'Nude - Model Reading a Sketch Book', oil on canvas, c

Julius Rolshoven - 'Nude - Model Reading a Sketch Book', oil on canvas, c

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