George Müller (lithographer)
George Müller (actually: Georg Conrad Ludwig Müller ; * 29 June 1831 in Celle † in the 19th or 20th century), a German was photographer and lithographer , in particular in the 19th century and fingerprinting mug shots on behalf of the police department Hanover umzeichnete to lithographs.
Life
George Müller was a son of the Bader Müller , who worked in Celle , and the younger brother of the municipal surgeon Müller, who worked in Hanover around 1857 . He was born as Georg Conrad Ludwig Müller in 1831 at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover and at the beginning of industrialization . Maybe Müller came through his older brother on the idea to become a photographer, and took some time as a traveling photographer in East Friesland about. In addition, according to a report by Oberhof Commissair Teichmann, he had probably only "[...] learned the most essential things in the lithographic establishment of Mr. Ortling in Celle" and then worked briefly in Braunschweig .
In 1847 Müller, who had meanwhile converted his first name Georg into the English or French spelling George , settled as a lithographer in the royal seat of Hanover . In 1850 at the latest it appeared in the address book of the city of Hanover .
On November 26th, 1856 he wrote a first letter of appeal to the - blind - King George V of Hanover , in which he asked his sovereign to grant him the title of "[...] court lighting photographer - and photographer". Enclosed with the letter were three portrait lithographs made by Müller with images of the astronomer Caroline Herschel , the councilor Georg Philipp Holscher and the personal physician Johann Georg Spangenberg . After no response with the coveted title had arrived at Christmas of the same year, Müller impatiently followed up in writing on January 10, 1857, this time via the detour to the address of Countess Grote , whose judgment on art matters was very important to the king. Attached to the letter were two lithographs made by Müller this time with the portraits of the Freemasons and Masters from the Brandeis and Friedrich Krancke chair , whereby Müller cleverly calculated that George V was also a member of a lodge association . The sender, who signed himself as a Freemason brother, gave Burgstrasse 24 as the address .
multicolored lithograph from A. Harbers & Brager
Reproduction of a postcard from the Wilkening collection , printed by Freimann & Fuchs, around 1998
Also in 1857, Müller wrote a third petition, but received a refusal from Oberhofmarschall Carl Ernst von Malortie , stating that Müller could, however, address another personal request to the king. George Müller promptly wrote a letter to George V on April 28, 1858, describing the artistic progress he had made in the meantime and the frank indication that the award of the title of court photographer would justify him, Müller, "[...] better progress ".
In fact, at the end of 1858, the “[…] most subservient” miller again laid down a petition “[…] at the feet of the throne ”, which, however, did not bring him the desired title, which was still unknown at court at the time. It is possible that the blind king was still not open to the new visual medium and was only able to change his mind after the Bavarian king Maximilian II Joseph had the assembled potentates photographed by the Bavarian court photographer Joseph Albert on September 1, 1863 at the Frankfurt Fürstentag . Back in Hanover, Georg V appointed his own court photographer that same year, not George Müller, but Eugen Lulves .
From 1860 at the latest, George Müller worked for the Hanover Police Department, for whose “ Criminal album ” he created lithographs based on previously made photographs, a comparatively inexpensive method for the reliable reproduction of portraits for the police and the judiciary.
Archival material
Archival material by and about George Müller can be found or was found, for example
- owned by the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office Hanover ; its collection in the “crime album” with “original images” both as a photograph and partly with the associated lithography is historically particularly valuable because it primarily depicts simple, poor people in the second half of the 19th century, who otherwise are For cost reasons, hardly a photograph would ever have been made.
- as at least four documents in the possession of the Lower Saxony State Archives (Hannover location)
literature
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Ludwig Hoerner : Hanover in early photographs. 1848-1910 . Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-921375-44-4
- P. 39ff .: About the difficulties of becoming a court photographer
- P. 96f .: Pictures from the "criminal album" of the Hanover police, around 1860. Different formats, wet collodion process , prints on salt and album paper , Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office , Hanover
- Christian Timm: "... regarding the production of photos while moving around ..." On the situation of the traveling photographers in East Friesland. In: Detlef Hoffmann , Jens Thiele (eds.): Lichtbilder, Lichtspiele: Beginnings of Photography and Cinema in East Friesland , accompanying document to the traveling exhibition in the East Frisian State Museum (town hall festival hall) in Emden from May 2 to 23, 1989 and in Nienburg in the Museum Nienburg from October 15 to November 12, 1989, Marburg: Jonas-Verlag für Kunst und Literatur, 1989, ISBN 3-922561-84-5 , pp. 156–191; Preview over google books
Web links
- 30 portrait pictures in lithographs, around 1860, Verlag George Müller, lithographer and photographer in Hanover , offered in 2015 by the Mehlis auction house on the-saleroom.com platform
Remarks
- ↑ Deviating from this, the place of birth Hainholz before Hanover is mentioned, compare Christian Timm: "... the production of photographs ..." , p. 171.
- ^ As the source, Ludwig Hoerner named the "[...] report of Oberhof Commissair Teichmann of January 19, 1857", which is in the holdings of the Lower Saxony Main State Archives in Hanover; this is Carl Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Teichmann , who previously worked in the Hanoverian embassy in Berlin from 1828 as legation chancellery and later as chief commissioner , compare Cornelia Roolfs: The Hanoverian court from 1814 to 1866: Hofstaat and court society (= sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony , vol 124), also dissertation 2002 at the University of Hanover, Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung und Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-7752-5924-4 , p. 91 and others; Preview over google books
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Christian Timm: "... regarding the production of photographs while moving around ..." On the situation of traveling photographers in East Frisia. In: Detlef Hoffmann, Jens Thiele (Hrsg.): Lichtbilder, Lichtspiele: Beginnings of Photography and Cinema in East Friesland , accompanying document to the traveling exhibition in the East Frisian State Museum (Rathausfestsaal) in Emden from May 2 to 23, 1989 and in Nienburg in the Museum Nienburg from October 15 to November 12, 1989, Marburg: Jonas-Verlag für Kunst und Literatur, 1989, ISBN 3-922561-84-5 , pp. 156–191, here pp. 171–177; limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Ludwig Hoerner: From the difficulties of becoming a court photographer , in this: Hanover in early photographs. 1848-1910 . Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-921375-44-4 , p. 39ff.
- ^ Ludwig Hoerner: Tasks, possibilities and areas of application of the photographers after 1860 , in ders .: Hanover in early photographs. 1848-1910 . Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-921375-44-4 , pp. 49-59; here: p. 57
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müller, Georg Conrad Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer and lithographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Celle |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th century or 20th century |