Ernst Erich Müller

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Plants and animals of the Laaer Berg (1955), sgraffito by Ernst Erich Müller, Angeligasse 15-17c, Vienna-Favoriten
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Ernst Erich Müller (born September 5, 1912 in Dresden , † August 16, 1972 in Vienna ) was an Austrian painter .

life and work

He had lived in Vienna since he was two. While working as a draftsman at a company, he attended evening nude courses at the Vienna School of Applied Arts with Anton von Kenner . He later studied at the University of Applied Arts and at the Academy of Fine Arts under Josef Dobrowsky (diploma 1959).

For the Salvador-Allende-Hof from 1963–1968, Müller designed abstract, decorative sgraffito wall panels for the staircase axes of the apartment blocks . For the Angeligasse / Troststrasse / Wirergasse building in Vienna's 10th district, he made two sgraffito murals (24 × 2 m and 27 × 2 m) with the title "Plants and Animals of the Laaerberg" in 1955/1956 . For the building Weisenböckstraße / Simmeringer Hauptstraße / Lorystraße in XI. District he also created decorative sgraffito wall panels in 1965/1968.

He was a member of the Hagenbund and from 1953 the artist group Der Kreis . Müller worked as a freelance painter in Vienna.

Participation in numerous group exhibitions at home and abroad.

literature

  • Michaela Pappernigg (arrangement): Art of the 20th century. Inventory catalog of the Austrian Gallery of the 20th Century, Volume 3: L – R. ed. vd Österreichischen Galerie Belvedere, Vienna 1997, p. 118.
  • Oliver Rathkolb, Klaus-Dieter Mulley (eds.): Theodor-Körner-Fonds: Prize winners 1954–2013. ÖGB-Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7035-1546-0 .

Web links

Commons : Sgraffito "Animals and Plants of the Laaerberg"  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Residential complex Troststrasse 8-16. Wiener Wohnen , accessed on July 3, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Salvador-Allende-Hof residential complex. Wiener Wohnen , accessed on May 19, 2015 .
  3. ^ Irene Nierhaus: Kunst-am-Bau: in the Viennese communal housing of the fifties. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-205-05567-5 , pp. 228, 231.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Ernst Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1972
Place of death Vienna