Eduard Müller (sculptor)

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Eduard Müller (born August 9, 1828 in Hildburghausen , † December 29, 1895 in Rome ) was a trained cook who trained himself as a sculptor .

Life

Eduard Müller began an apprenticeship in the ducal court kitchen in 1842, went to Munich and Paris as a cook four years later , stayed in Antwerp for two years and, after having modeled a lot in his leisure hours, followed the advice of the sculptor Joseph in 1850 Geefs his urge for sculpture. He attended the local academy and also earned his living by portraits . In 1852 he went to Brussels , where in 1854 he created the marble statue of an awakening boy and in 1856 a psyche which, after settling in Rome from 1857, he made in marble for the Prince of England.

Prometheus, lamented by the Oceanids (1872–1879)

His main work, the Prometheus and the Oceanids group, was written in Rome since 1868 . The Nationalgalerie Berlin commissioned a monumental marble version and installed it in 1879. Always connected to his hometown Coburg , Eduard Müller gave her a true-to-original plaster cast, for which an existing pavilion was specially converted in 1880 for its public presentation. Although skeptical about reductions in his sculptures, the sculptor allowed the Berlin foundry Hermann Gladenbeck to manufacture and sell one around 1885 to 1888 . The sculptor Otto Gradler (* 1836, † probably after 1921) created a model based on Müller's original especially for this purpose . In the Germanic National Museum is located since 2004 a copy of this sculpture, as in Berlin Alte Nationalgalerie .

After he had completed a sketch for a counterpart of the Prometheus group (the liberation of Prometheus by Hercules ), he completed his artistic activity.

Eduard Müller was professor and member of the Akademie San Luca in Rome , the Berlin Academy and the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. He became an honorary member of the Academy of Carrara and, like his twin brother Gustav, an honorary citizen of the city of Coburg in 1880 .

Both brothers were buried in Rome in the Protestant cemetery .

Works

  • Nymph , the Cupid kissing (1862, owned by the Queen of England)
  • Faith, love, hope , for a mausoleum in Hamburg (1869)
  • Satyr in the Mask (1870)
  • Awakening Girl (1872)
  • The Faun's Secret (1874)
  • Bacchante Threatening to Cut Cupid's Wings (1874)
  • The Neapolitan fisherman and his boy (1875)
  • Roman woman with the moccoli light
  • Eva with her children
  • The frightened nymph (counterpart to the satyr with the mask )

literature

Web links

Commons : Eduard Müller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 52) Eduard, sculptor . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 14, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p.  237 . - Section: engravers, painters, sculptors, architects.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildburghausen
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1895
Place of death Rome