Franz Müller (painter, 1843)

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Franz Müller (born April 26, 1843 in Düsseldorf ; † September 1929 there ) was a German history , church and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting .

Life

Portrait of a farmer around 1900

The baptized under the name Maria Joseph Ernestin Franz Müller was the son of the church and history painter Andreas Müller and Maria Katharina, geb. Sweden (1814–1883) from Düsseldorf. He first learned and worked under the direction of his father Andreas Müller and his uncle Karl Müller . At the Art Academy in Düsseldorf he studied under Karl Ferdinand Sohn , Eduard Bendemann and Ernst Deger , who had a lasting influence on his painting, and was a member of the artists' association Malkasten .

His first independent work was a "Madonna with Child in Landscape", then a Pietà , which the Kunstverein acquired. In the 1860s, the young painter Franz Müller helped his father paint the art hall of the princely castle in Sigmaringen with 24 depictions of German masters for Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern . In 1871 and 1872 Müller attended the art academy in Antwerp .

Winged altar in the St. Remigius Church in Bonn

After his return he completed an altarpiece in Kevelaer and painted John the Baptist, Christ and a Madonna in the pilgrimage site. He painted a whole series of pictures for the parish church of St. Cyriakus von Hüls . Franz Müller made a picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus for the St. Paulus Cathedral in Münster.

After the death of his uncle in 1893, Franz Müller completed the large altarpiece on the subject of "The Church" in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Remigius in Bonn based on the cardboard template. The late Nazarene picture in three parts "The heavenly sacrifice above the altar" shows the enthroned Christ between Mary and John the Baptist at the top, and numerous male figures, the evangelists and other apostles, in the main picture below and in the side pictures. Franz Müller also executed individual figures of church teachers and church fathers for the choir walls of the same church.

In the Catholic provost church of St. Josef in Verden , the choir was painted with frescoes by Franz Müller and Eduard Goldkuhle from Wiedenbrück.

Like his father, he painted mostly religious church pictures, made cardboard boxes for church windows and also a number of portraits .

literature

  • Hans Paffrath (Ed.): Lexicon of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918. Volume 2: Haach – Murtfeldt. Published by the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof and by the Paffrath Gallery. Bruckmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7654-3010-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Different year of birth: Müller, Franz (1844-1929), Painter , in: Benezit Dictionary of Artists . Access date: June 10, 2018.
  2. ↑ Inventory list of the artists' association Malkasten
  3. ↑ Short biography: Franz Müller, history painter, b. 1843 in Düsseldorf , from retrobibliothek.de, accessed on 23 August 2015
  4. ^ New parish church St. Cyriakus: The high altar was completed in 1882; this was followed by the altar of Mary and Joseph. The church windows were also designed from 1888 onwards. ( Memento of the original of November 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.st-cyriakus-huels.de
  5. ↑ History of the Provost Church of St. Josef
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Maria Joseph Ernestin Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German history, church and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH September 1929
Place of death Dusseldorf