Albert Müller (sculptor)

Albert Müller (born June 20, 1941 in Trier , † April 14, 2004 in Berlin ) was a German sculptor in Berlin.

Life

In the 1960s he worked as a worker, member of the mountain rescue service , ski instructor and diver. After a six-month hospital stay due to a serious motorcycle accident, he studied German in Saarbrücken , from 1962 sculpture at the University of the Arts (HdK) in Berlin (today: Berlin University of the Arts ) with Ludwig Gabriel Schrieber .

In 1968 he was AStA chairman and master class student at Schrieber. In 1969 he received a scholarship from France, in 1970 he undertook a year-long trip to Asia (Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan), 1972 he was teacher of art at Berlin schools. From 1980 he was shown in various exhibitions in Trier, Berlin and Strasbourg, including five solo exhibitions. In 1988 one of his works was the annual gift of the Berliner Kunstverein. In 1989 he retired from school and continued to work as a freelance artist until his unexpected death in 2004. His grave is located in the St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg.

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During my college days, the focus was on working on stone. Above all, sculptures of women's bodies, torsos and heads in stone, plaster of paris, wax, lead and bronze date from the 1970s. Characteristic of his later working method, however, was the production of sculptures and reliefs from organic materials, their coating with melted beeswax and the subsequent flame, so that a coating of dark varnish was created on the objects. Works since the 1990s have been mainly cast wax reliefs with painterly surface structures that allude to body shapes. Müller used the special properties of wax as a material to visualize an unstable state between becoming and passing.

Exhibitions

1980 Albert Müller solo exhibition in the foyer of the Deutsche Oper Berlin; from March 20th / April
1980 landscapes and people . Double exhibition Rainer Kündgen / Albert Müller in Palais Walderdorff, Trier; October 26–30. November
1987 Albert Müller. Model - nature - sculpture. Solo exhibition in the gallery for sculptors, art + concrete, BH Berge, Mommsenstr. 32, Berlin-Charlottenburg; April 11–30. May
1989 The comprehensible sculpture. Contemporary sculpture from Berlin. Joint exhibition in the IPE building in Strasbourg (Dietrich Art-Aeras, André Bockholdt, Wolfgang Bouvié, Hubertus B Rand, Wolf Bröll, Udo G. Cordes, Jochen Dunkel, Michael Friedrichs-Friedländer, Mona Fux, Peter Herbrich, Hella Horstmeier, Herbert Maria Juny, Gerald Matzner, Albert Müller, Klaus Müller-Klug, Monika Müller-Klug, Günter Ohlwein, Erika Schewski-Rühling, Simon Schrieber, Jochen F. Schultze-Bansen)
1991 In dialogue. Pictures by Helga Oluf, sculptures by Albert Müller. Berlin, Galerie iX, Kyffhäuser Str. 24; March 15–13. April
1993 forensics. Solo exhibition in the Maeder Gallery, Dimitroffstr. 22, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg; May 18–25. June
1995 Heads , drawing - painting - sculpture in the Berlin office of Egon Zehnder International, Kurfürstendamm 72, 10709 Berlin. Conceived and realized by Ad-Artem. Participants: Martin Colden, Wolfgang Lehmann, Albert Müller, Achim Niemann, Hans Scheuerecker, Falko Warmt, Dieter Zimmermann
2000 explicit: wax stone bronze. Solo exhibition in the Galerie Gesellschaft, Auguststr. 83, 10117 Berlin; October 28th – 7th December
2002 Running Danger (Albert Müller, Susanne Humrich, Jürgen Köhler), Galerie Gesellschaft, Berlin; July 27–4. September
2002 Waxy Identities. Figurative wax sculpture at the end of the 20th century. Participation in the exhibition in the Georg Kolbe Museum , Berlin; June 1–11. August
2003 Feuermale - the combustible world. Solo exhibition in the Galerie Gesellschaft, Auguststr. 83, 10117 Berlin; May 10th - May 18th June

Posthumously

2012 Pohl position . A selection of Müller's sculptures depicting a street, September 1st, 2–10 pm
2014 sculptures - reliefs - photo works . Solo exhibition in the Galerie Gesellschaft, Auguststr. 83, 10117 Berlin; June 28th - August 8th
2015 pillage . Solo exhibition in the Katz & Bach Gallery, Katzbachstr. 25, 10965 Berlin, April 3 - May 8

Trivia

"Brandschatz" - a novel mosaic with stories about the Berlin artist Albert Müller will be published on February 23, 2014 by the Dahlem publishing house
Under the title “Feuerspiel - a search for traces”, readings of fictional stories about the artist described in an obituary of the Tagesspiegel in 2004 took place in Berlin from 2011–2012.
Two works by Müller can be borrowed from the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein eV
The writer Kathrin Passig published a story in 2006 that describes an encounter with Albert Müller, who lived in her neighborhood in Neukölln for a while around the year 2000.

References and comments

↑ O. Dahlke: Obsessed artist crowns his work with beeswax . In: Die Welt , 1987
↑ Interview with Albert Müller in Albert Müller. Model - Nature - Sculpture , exhibition catalog Berlin 1987
↑ Information after the prefaces in exhibition catalogs of his exhibitions
^ Hans-Ludwig Schulte: Landscapes and people. Exhibition Rüdiger Kündgen / Albert Müller in Palais Walderdorff . In: Trierischer Volksfreund , November 4, 1980.
↑ s. Description of the exhibition on the homepage of the Georg Kolbe Museum
↑ List of public appointments. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
↑ Invitation to the exhibition: sculptures - reliefs - photo works. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
^ Invitation to the "Brandschatz" exhibition. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
^ A pillage at da-ve. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
↑ the authors Eike Asen, Katrin Deibert, Bea Kemer, Susanne Kliem, Slavica Klimowsky and Rainer Schildberger held z. B. a reading on December 1, 2011 in the Bruno Lösche Library , on May 11, 2012 in the Terzo Mondo
↑ A berserk in art. A romantic in love. Obituary for Albert Müller. In the Berlin Tagesspiegel v. July 16, 2004 by Gregor Eisenhauer
↑ Artothek des nbk Retrieved June 16, 2020 .
↑ Kathrin Passig: Neuköllner Alpenglow , 2006 in Volltext.net, newspaper for literature , and published in the Berliner Tagesspiegel ; Text on the author's homepage ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

www.bildhauer-mueller.de

personal data
SURNAME	Müller, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Müller, Ali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 20, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	trier
DATE OF DEATH	April 14, 2004
Place of death	Berlin

[1] O. Dahlke: Obsessed artist crowns his work with beeswax . In: Die Welt , 1987

[2] Interview with Albert Müller in Albert Müller. Model - Nature - Sculpture , exhibition catalog Berlin 1987

[3] Information after the prefaces in exhibition catalogs of his exhibitions

[4] Hans-Ludwig Schulte: Landscapes and people. Exhibition Rüdiger Kündgen / Albert Müller in Palais Walderdorff . In: Trierischer Volksfreund , November 4, 1980.

[5] s. Description of the exhibition on the homepage of the Georg Kolbe Museum

[6] List of public appointments. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .

[7] Invitation to the exhibition: sculptures - reliefs - photo works. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .

[8] Invitation to the "Brandschatz" exhibition. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .

[9] A pillage at da-ve. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .

[10] the authors Eike Asen, Katrin Deibert, Bea Kemer, Susanne Kliem, Slavica Klimowsky and Rainer Schildberger held z. B. a reading on December 1, 2011 in the Bruno Lösche Library , on May 11, 2012 in the Terzo Mondo

[11] A berserk in art. A romantic in love. Obituary for Albert Müller. In the Berlin Tagesspiegel v. July 16, 2004 by Gregor Eisenhauer

[12] Artothek des nbk Retrieved June 16, 2020 .

[13] Kathrin Passig: Neuköllner Alpenglow , 2006 in Volltext.net, newspaper for literature , and published in the Berliner Tagesspiegel ; Text on the author's homepage ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )