Born in Copenhagen, Jules Schyl was a painter and graphic artist and draughtsman. He studied at the Technical School (Tekniska skolans högre konstindustriella skola) in Stockholm from 1914-17 and then for two years at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen.
In the early 1920s, Schyl ran an art school in Lund in Skåne in the South of Sweden. In 1924, together with a group of painters from Skåne, he started an artists group called 'De tolv' (The twelve) and together they contibuted to the breakthrough of Modernism in art in Sweden.
Schyl went on several study trips to Germany, Italy, France and Spain. He was fascinated by the dance, music and the modern café scenes in Paris and Berlin often painting this milieu. He also loved to paint landscapes abroad and in his native Sweden using an Expressionistic and later a Cubist style that he had observed on his travels to France.
Schyl's works are held in the collection of several museums including the Swedish National Museum, Malmö Museum, Lund Universiy Collections and the Museums of Helsingborg and Tomelilla.