Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen

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Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen (born February 10, 1893 as Berthold Müller in Oerlinghausen , † June 22, 1979 in Kressbronn ) was a German sculptor .

life and work

Grave of Emily and Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen in the old cemetery in Kressbronn

Berthold Müller was born in Oerlinghausen near Bielefeld in 1893 . He began studying sculpture in 1910 while he was still in high school at the crafts and arts school in Bielefeld with Hans Perathoner . In 1912 he made his humanistic Abitur in Bielefeld. In 1914 he moved to Berlin , where he studied at the Charlottenburg School of Applied Arts . During the First World War he was conscripted for the cavalry in Russia , Galicia and France . In 1919 he was able to continue his interrupted studies in Berlin with Hans Perathoner and Willy Jaeckel .

In 1922 he and his wife Jenny Wiegmann converted to Catholicism in the Maria Laach Abbey . In the 1920s he devoted himself to religious art: Church art-in-building tasks, participation in the “Exhibition for Religious Art” at the Ernst Arnold Gallery in Dresden and the Vatican's mission exhibition for the Holy Year 1925 with the large sculpture “Pope Gregory the Great ”, which is now in the Mission Museum in Sankt Ottilien . In 1929 he took part in the annual exhibition of the Berlin Secession , and in 1931 in exhibitions of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin .

In 1931 he separated from his wife Jenny. In 1933 he married Emily Sturm . In 1933 he organized and took part in the Catholic section of the "Modern Ecclesiastical Art" exhibition during the Chicago World's Fair . From now on he spent most of the summer months in Kressbronn on Lake Constance . In 1936 he founded a mosaic workshop in Berlin. The son Bruno Müller-Oerlinghausen was born on March 7th .

In 1940 they finally moved to Kressbronn. In 1944 his Berlin studio, the mosaic workshop and his apartment were destroyed by bombs. From 1945 he played a major role in the renewal of cultural life on Lake Constance:

  • 1946 Reconstruction of the mosaic workshop in Kressbronn, exhibitions in the Lindau Municipal Museum
  • 1947 foundation of the "Oberschwäbische Sezession" (from 1950 "Sezession Oberschwaben-Bodensee")
  • Foundation of the "Artists' Association of the City and District of Lindau eV" (from 1956 "Society of Art Friends Lindau")
  • Solo exhibitions in the Wessenberghaus in Konstanz , a. a.
  • 1962 Large relief and columns in the lobby of the spa park in Bad Salzuflen
  • 1963 retrospective on the occasion of the 70th birthday in the Lindau Municipal Museum.
  • 1963 Five large bronze reliefs in the foyer of the concert hall in Bad Salzuflen under the title "Man and Music from Pan to Apollo"

In 1974 Ulrich Gertz dedicated the monograph Müller-Oerlinghausen, the sculptor to Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen .

In 1979 Müller-Oerlinghausen died in Kressbronn. He did not live to see the intended award of the title of professor by the state of Baden-Württemberg.

In 1983 a monograph by Gisela Linder was published, and in 1990 the catalog of works by Wolfgang Henze.

Honors

Works (selection)

Large sculpture of Gregory the Great

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Andrea Dippel (Ed.): All my friends ... The sculptor Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen in dialogue with artists of his time. Ernst Barlach , Curth Georg Becker , Marc Chagall , Otto Dix , André Ficus , Werner Gilles , Pablo Picasso , Christian Rohlfs . Verlag Robert Gessler, Friedrichshafen 2005, ISBN 3-86136-105-1 (catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Bodenseekreis gallery, September 4 to October 30, 2005).
  • Ulrich Gertz: Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen, the sculptor . Zollikofer publishing house, St. Gallen 1974, ISBN 3-85993-008-7 .
  • Wolfgang Henze: Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen. The complete work . Belser Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-7630-2069-1 .
  • Gisela Linder: The sculptor Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen . Verlag Robert Gessler, Friedrichshafen 1983, ISBN 3-922137-19-9 (Kunst am See; 9).
  • Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen: Vision and Reality. Lectures on the fine arts 1928-1966 . Verlag Robert Gessler, Friedrichshafen 1993, ISBN 3-922137-93-8 .
  • Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen: Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen: Sculptures, reliefs and drawings from the Berlin years 1929-1939 and from his years in Kressbronn on Lake Constance 1940-1973 (exhibition catalog)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: Andrea Dippel: All my friends ... The sculptor Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen in dialogue with artists of his time . Verlag Robert Gessler, Friedrichshafen, 2005, p. 17
  2. ^ Ulrich Gertz: Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen, the sculptor . Zollikofer & Co publishing house, St. Gallen, 1974
  3. ↑ Gisela Linder: The sculptor Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen . Robert Gessler publishing house, Friedrichshafen, 1983
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Henze: Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen - The Complete Works . Belser Verlag, Stuttgart / Zurich, 1990
  5. ↑ Exhibition catalog 1935. PDF file from kunstverein.de

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personal data
SURNAME Müller-Oerlinghausen, Berthold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Berthold (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Oerlinghausen
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1979
Place of death Kressbronn