Bruno Müller-Linow

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Self-portrait Bruno Müller-Linow (oil on canvas 1992)

Bruno Müller-Linow (born July 31, 1909 in Pasewalk , Pomerania , † March 18, 1997 in Hochscheid ) was a German painter , graphic artist and university professor .

Life

Bruno Müller-Linow was born in Pasewalk (Pomerania) and grew up in Berlin. In September 1927 he made his Abitur at the Oberrealschule Berlin-Pankow. From the winter semester of 1927/28 he studied fine arts and art education at the State Art School in Berlin with Willy Jaeckel , Heinrich Reifferscheid and Bernhard Hasler . He felt that he was part of the Berlin secession around Leo von König , Heinrich Graf Luckner and Willy Jaeckel. Max Liebermann and Ludwig Justi acquired pictures from him for the Prussian State and for the National Gallery (Berlin) . In July 1931 he took his final exam at the State Art School in Berlin.

In 1931 Bruno Müller-Linow became a member of the Munich Secession and in 1936 a lecturer at the College for Teacher Training in Lauenburg . There he met Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , who had a strong influence on him, and with whom he painted watercolors on Lake Leba . In 1941/42 he received a scholarship at the German Academy in the Villa Massimo in Rome. In 1943 he was appointed to the Werkkunstschule Braunschweig. After a short time, Bruno Müller-Linow was called up for military service. After the imprisonment and expulsion of his family from Lauenburg, which also meant the loss of his pictures, a new beginning began as a teacher at the Werkkunstschule Braunschweig, a predecessor of the Braunschweiger Werkkunstschule . Here he was able to continue the close friendship with the sculptor Paul Egon Schiffers . In 1955 he became rector of the Werkkunstschule Trier . In 1956, Bruno Müller-Linow was offered a professorship for drawing, painting and graphics at the Technical University of Darmstadt , where he lived until 1988 after his retirement (1975).

In 1988 he settled in Hochscheid in the Hunsrück. Until his death, Bruno Müller-Linow worked as a draftsman and painter (oil paintings, watercolors), created glass windows (1959 windows of the Holy Cross Church in Bensheim-Auerbach and 1965 St. Peter's windows in the Bessunger Church) and particularly focused on the art of drypoint etching apart. There was a close friendship with the painter Heinz Friedrich .

Bruno Müller-Linow had been married to Margarete Splittstößer since 1935. After the death of his first wife in 1974, he married Ute Amonn three years later. His second wife died in 1996, a few months later Müller-Linow died in Hochscheid in the Hunsrück.

Prizes and awards

Cultural award ceremony of the Pomeranian Landsmannschaft 1973 to Bruno Müller-Linow (center)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1976 Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg
  • 1982 Kunsthalle Darmstadt (group exhibition)
  • 1994 Galerie Koch, Hanover, for his 85th birthday
  • 1999 retrospective in the Kunsthalle Darmstadt
  • 2019 Museum Bensheim - landscape, portrait, still life

Publicly owned works (selection)

  • Bavarian State Gallery
  • National Gallery Berlin
  • Art gallery Emden
  • Oberhess. Giessen Museum
  • Museum Bensheim, Bensheim

literature

  • German contemporary erasers. Darmstadt 1982, p. 122f.
  • Hans-Jürgen Imiela : Bruno Müller-Linow (1909–1997). Alsbach 1999.
  • The future in mind. Reflections on the stained glass window by Bruno Müller-Linow in the Holy Cross Church in Bensheim-Auerbach. Text by Richard Hartmann (theologian) , photos by Markus Bissinger, editor: Parish Heilig Kreuz, Bensheim-Auerbach, Bensheim 2005. ISBN 3-937645-31-4

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personal data
SURNAME Müller-Linow, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Pasewalk
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1997
Place of death Hochscheid