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ARTIST: Julius Moesel (Illinois, Germany, 1871 - 1957) NAME: Spirits of the 18th Century (titled on verso) YEAR: 1940s MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Very minor craquelure. Missing few flakes of paint. No visible inpaint under UV light. SIGHT SIZE: 40 x 35 inches / 101 x 88 cm FRAME SIZE: 45 x 40 inches / 114 x 101 cm SIGNATURE: lower left and on verso NAME VARIANTS: Julius Mossel SIMILAR ARTISTS: Julian Rix, Barse Miller, Elmer Wachtel, Paul Dougherty, David Chapple, Mabel Alvarez, Grace Carpenter Hudson, Marion Ida Kavanagh Wachtel, William Louis Sonntag Sr, Frank Tenney Johnson, William Ballantine Dorsey, Edith White, George Gardner Symons, Abel Warshawsky, Gordon Coutts, Bennett Bradbury CATEGORY: antique vintage painting SKU#: 116989 US Shipping $239 + insurance. AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US BIOGRAPHY: The painter Julius Moessel completed the eighteen murals in The Field Museum's Plants of the World exhibit comparatively late in his career. Moessel was one of the Chicago art scene's most notable figures from the late 1920s through the 1950s-but the Chicago years were actually a second career for the German artist. Born in 1871 in Furth, Moessel studied at the Munich Academy under Rudolph von Seitz, and while still in his twenties established a successful career as a muralist and painter of architectural decoration. At the age of 15, he was executing architectural decoration in an academic style, working with architects in Germany. After moving to the U.S., he continued to paint murals, but turned to easel painting as well. Murals in the Jury Room at Nuremberg (site of the famed war trials), the Court Theater at Stuttgart, and the City Hall at Leipzig are but three of the prolific painter's more notable German projects.