Carl Müller-Tenckhoff

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Carl Müller-Tenckhoff (born July 23, 1873 in Münster , † March 7, 1936 in Mainz ) was an impressionist painter and set designer . He mainly painted landscapes of his Westphalian homeland and city vedutas of Mainz, but also Taunus and Rhineland landscapes.

Life

Carl Müller was born as the son of the brewer Carl Müller (1839-1912) and Franziska (1842-1884) from the Tenckhoff brewery family in Münster. After graduating from school, he learned the craft of decorative painter. He then studied art in Düsseldorf and then went into business for himself in Münster. He had his studio on the Alten Steinweg, and his apprentice was the painter Wilhelm Palmes. He later moved to Mainz, where he lived at Münsterstrasse 1. There he married Agnes Braun. They had three children. After he had gained some notoriety, he decided to add his mother's maiden name to the name Müller and from then on signed Müller-Tenckhoff. In Münster he was a member of the free artists' association and the Brotherhood of Schlaraffen . There he became "Knight Rubens the ideal Westphalian" . In Mainz, too, he joined an artists' association and became its first chairman. From 1905 he became a teacher at the arts and crafts school in Mainz and worked as a set designer at the theaters in Darmstadt, Mannheim and Mainz. Carl Müller-Tenckhoff died on March 7, 1936 in Mainz. A memorial plaque is attached to the house where he was born in Münster (Kreuzstrasse).

Works by Carl Müller-Tenckhoff are in the Landesmuseum Mainz , in the Landesmuseum Münster and the Abbey Museum Liesborn . During an exhibition in the Glaspalast in Munich on June 6, 1931, many of his paintings were burned in a major fire.

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Individual evidence

  1. Chronicle of Pinkus Beer in Münster: 1866 As the successor to the brewery founder Johannes, son Carl also learns the brewing and bakery trade, but gives up the bakery and builds a malt house at the same location. Wife Franziska, called Fanny, comes from the Tenckhoff family brewery in the neighborhood. She takes care of the guests in the Altbier kitchen. , at pinkus.de, accessed on April 13, 2019
  2. Catalogs of the art exhibitions in the Munich Glass Palace 1869-1931 in the culture portal bavarikon

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