Herbert Müller (painter, 1953)

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Herber Müller

Herbert Müller (born April 12, 1953 in Norden ) is an East Frisian art teacher and freelance painter who gained fame beyond the borders of his homeland. The focus of his artistic work is landscape and history painting . The subjects that Müller works on include, among other things, northern German landscapes, travel impressions from Europe , Africa and the Far East as well as the artistic examination of contemporary events of the 20th century.

Life

Herbert Müller spent his childhood and youth in the small East Frisian town of Norden. After graduating from the Ulrichsgymnasium Norden , he studied painting from 1973 to 1979 at the Art Academy in Münster under Professor Udo Scheel. At the same time, he enrolled at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , where he began to study history .

In 1981 he became an art teacher at the Ulricianum grammar school in Aurich . In addition to his educational work, Müller runs his own studio and is a member of the Federal Association of Visual Artists (BBK) , Lower Saxony State Association and chairman of the East Friesland section of the BBK.

Müller lives in Fehnhusen , a part of the municipality of Südbrookmerland .

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Herbert Müller began his actual artistic work in the 1970s. At first it was the north-west German homeland whose colors and shapes he dealt with in watercolor and oil . Extensive travels took him to Greece , Italy , Northern Cyprus , Poland , North Africa and Cambodia, among others . The impressions of these journeys were reflected in extensive watercolor cycles.

Since the 1980s, Müller has increasingly dealt with the recent German past in his works. This includes the sequence of images of the Engerhafe concentration camp , a branch of the Neuengamme concentration camp . In watercolors, sketches and gouaches , terrible events that occurred between October and December 1944 in the small southern Brookmerlander Warfendorf are processed - in the immediate vicinity of the church and in the garden of the parish parsonage . 188 prisoners died in Engerhafe in front of the village population through hunger and illness. In his series of images, Müller processed eyewitness reports, death notes discovered in the parish register, and photo documents about the exhumation of corpses hastily buried in 1944 in 1955. The cycles Images of War and Jewish Cemeteries can also be seen in the context of this debate.

In 2005 Herbert Müller went on a trip to Cambodia and there he encountered traces of the victims of torture by the Rote Khmers . The Tuol Sleng Prison in the capital Phnom Penh , a former school, was best known as a torture site for intellectuals . Herbert Müller converted, among other things, photographs of nameless victims, which were only identified by numbers, into large-format portraits, thus creating an extraordinary memorial in his own way. In 2006 and 2008 he also exhibited his paintings on Tuol Sleng in Phnom Penh.

Herbert Müller is also known in his home country for a number of larger art projects and installations as well as for his commitment to art in public spaces .

A selection of his work is available in the form of art calendars.

A selection of exhibitions

"KZ und Kirche" (2000), charcoal drawing of the Engerhafe concentration camp based on eyewitness reports

In addition to many exhibitions that presented his landscape paintings, Herbert Müller received special attention through his contemporary historical pictures of the Engerhafe concentration camp and Tuol Sleng / Cambodia. They have been shown at home and abroad.

Exhibitions on the Engerhafe concentration camp

Exhibitions on Tuol Sleng / Cambodia

Appreciation

In 2002, Herbert Müller received the first prize in the art tender from Karl Simrock Research Bonn . It honored Müller's watercolors about the poets Karl Joseph Simrock (1802–1876) and Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810–1876).

literature

  • Herbert Müller - Works and literature in the catalog of the East Frisian Library Emden ; Accessed May 7, 2009.
  • Eva Requardt-Schohaus: The suppressed autumn from Engerhafe , in: Ostfriesland Magazin , issue 11/1994.
  • Auguste Rulffes: Art in the district house: Herbert Müller (catalog for the exhibition with an introduction by Auguste Rulffes), Aurich, approx. 1995.
  • Irmi Hartmann: Landscape. The artist Herbert Müller , in: Ostfriesland Magazin , issue 6/98, p. 115ff.
  • Dr. Gerhard Stauch (Ed.): What is a person that you think of him? Psalm 8.5. Works by Herbert Müller. Engerhafe concentration camp, Tuol Sleng - prison in Phnom Penh , Aurich 2008.
  • Sezession Nordwest eV (Ed.): 7 years of Sezession Nordwest. Showcase for current, regional art , Wilhelmshaven 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gerhard Stauch: What is man that you think of him? , in: What is a person that you think of him? (Ed. by Gerhard Stauch), p. 7.
  2. ↑ Manfred Schütz: For Herbert Müller, art means life , in: Ostfriesen-Zeitung, edition February 12, 2010; accessed on September 15, 2012.
  3. ↑ Stefan Claus: Bunker mural Emder bunker picture repainted (in collaboration with other artists), in: Ostfriesen-Zeitung, edition May 8, 2009.
  4. ^ Herbert Müller: Dialogue - Calendar 2005 ; East Frisian Landscapes Calendar 2006 ; East Frisian Landscapes - Calendar 2009
  5. ↑ Dr. Gerhard Stauch (Ed.): What is a person that you think of him? Psalm 8.5. Works by Herbert Müller. Engerhafe concentration camp, Tuol Sleng - prison in Phnom Penh , Aurich 2008, p. 58.
  6. ^ Press report by Ostfriesische Nachrichten from February 12, 2010.
  7. ↑ See press report of the Westfälische Rundschau from May 26, 2008, accessed on January 23, 2016.
  8. ^ Meta House in Phnom Penh Opens Exhibition Remembering the Vietnam War - Announcement of the exhibition opening in Art Daily , Phnom Penh, August 20, 2008; viewed on May 6, 2009.

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personal data
SURNAME Müller, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH North (East Frisia)