Emma von Müller

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Emma von Müller, Edle von Seehof , (* 1859 in Innsbruck , † 1925 in Munich ) was an Austrian - Bavarian genre and portrait painter and student of Franz von Defregger .

life and work

Little is known about Emma von Müller's life. She was a student of the genre and history painter and representative of the Munich school Franz von Defregger , as well as Ludwig Schmid-Reutte . Her excellent painting skills were so recognized that she was used to make copies of Defregger paintings. She gained fame through her psychologically sensitive portraits of young peasant girls in Austrian and Bavarian costumes.

Her painting Funny Stories from 1885 was published in the magazine Katholische Warte in 1889. Some of her genre pictures such as Guter Appetit or Visits from the late 1880s and early 1890s were exhibited in Vienna and Munich and reproduced in the magazines Daheim and Gartenlaube .

Works by Emma von Müller were shown at the Tyrolean State Exhibition in Innsbruck in 1893 in the department of artists living in Munich. Her painting Guter Appetit received the bronze medal at the artist exhibition in London's Crystal Palace .

  • girl

  • Illustration after a painting by Emma von Müller in the journal Die Gartenlaube , 1897

  • Two dirndls

  • Girls in Costume , 1895

literature

  • Müller, Emma . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 224 .
  • Gert Ammann: Franz von Defregger and his circle, exhibition of the Tyrolean State Museum. Innsbruck 1987
  • Heinrich Fuchs: The Austrian painters of the 19th century. Volume 3, Vienna 1973
  • Sybille-Karin Moser: Tyrolean pictures and their representation in the fine arts: Painting in Tyrol 1830-1900. In: Paul Naredi-Rainer, Lukas Madersbacher (Ed.): Art in Tirol. Volume 2: From the Baroque to the Present (= Art History Studies - Innsbruck. NF Vol. 4). Tyrolia et al., Innsbruck et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7022-2775-3 , pp. 519-560 ( PDF; 1.1 MB )

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personal data
SURNAME Müller, Emma von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller von Seehof, Emma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Bavarian genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH 1925
Place of death Munich