Julius Roeting

Julius Roeting studied at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Training under Eduard Bendemann is recorded. Hermann Knackfuß is recorded as having studied under Julius Roeting. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait and history. The authority associates the name with Düsseldorf school of painting. Residence is recorded at Düsseldorf. Employment is recorded with Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Positions recorded include professor. Works named in the authority record are Columbus before the ecclesiastical council of Salamanca. Work by Julius Roeting is recorded in the collections of National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Museum Catharijneconvent, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Wallraf–Richartz Museum. Distinctions recorded are Knight Fourth Class of the Order of St Michael of Merit and Order of the Red Eagle.

He displayed artistic talent while still very young and, at the age of twelve, helped create a painting of a lion on a local theater curtain. He began his formal art studies at the Kunstakademie Dresden with Eduard Bendemann then, in 1849, moved to Düsseldorf, where he took over a painting class from the retiring Theodor Hildebrandt at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 1868, he was named a professor, to replace the late Karl Ferdinand Sohn. During these years, he travelled extensively. He visited Krefeld in 1854, where he met and married his wife, Maria. The following year, he spent some time in Paris with Ludwig Knaus, then went on to London to paint several portraits, including one of Lord Cranworth, but left before completing his commissions, citing homesickness. In 1855, he was awarded the Order of St. Michael by King Maximilian II of Bavaria and, in 1877, received the Order of the Red Eagle. Although he created numerous historical scenes, religious and profane, he became best known for his masculine portraits, including Emanuel Leutze, Wilhelm von Schadow, Carl Friedrich Lessing and Ernst Moritz Arndt. He was a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts and the Vienna Academy of Arts, as well as the "Malkasten", a local society in Düsseldorf. The painter Max Volkhart was his son-in-law. He died after a short illness (probably pneumonia) leaving several portraits unfinished.