Hanns Müller (painter)

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Johannes Müller , artist name Hanns Müller (born March 25, 1901 in Bremen , † March 17, 1999 in Bremen) was a German painter .

biography

Müller was the son of the coffee, raw tobacco and cork importer Heinrich Diedrich Müller and his wife Dorothee (née Stürmann). He attended the reform high school Neues Gymnasium Am Barkhof . In 1921 Müller became a member of the Bremen Art Association and in 1926 the Bremen Artists' Association. From the winter semester 1921/22 to 1926 he studied at the Bremen School of Applied Arts , a. a. with Ernst Müller-Scheessel . From 1922 works by him were shown in exhibitions in Berlin, Bremen, Hanover, Karlsruhe, Cologne, Mannheim and Syke. In 1925/26 he was a master student of Willy Menz in his graphics class and received an excellent diploma. In 1927 he continued his studies in Berlin with Willy Jaeckel and in 1928 attended Hans Hofmann's painting school in Munich for three months . In the following years he went on study trips to Dresden, Hamburg, Hanover and Nuremberg.

During his studies, Müller ran his own workshop for commercial graphics, worked as a freelance writer, wrote plays, radio plays, dramas, short stories and essays, translated from Ancient Greek, Latin, French, Flemish and English and conducted American literary studies in the Bremen America House . In the 1930s he worked as an art critic for Bremer Nachrichten in the feature section, wrote articles for magazines such as the Munich Youth , the Essener Hellweg , the Berliner Kunstblatt and the Bremer Schünemann Month. He also worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist.

From 1928 to 1933 he was a member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists , and in 1934 he joined the Reich Chamber of Culture . His artistic work experienced a profound turning point with the emergence of National Socialism and, under the pressure of the National Socialist art doctrine, he rejected or destroyed many of his own works that did not meet the requirements of the Reich Chamber of Culture. He took part in several exhibitions from 1935 to 1938, but in the course of the “ Degenerate Art ” campaign in 1937 five of his graphics were confiscated in the Kunsthalle Bremen that did not correspond to National Socialist ideology and were assigned to avant-garde modernism , non-representational modern art . They showed a proximity to abstraction and elements of the New Objectivity . In the following years Müller therefore occupied himself almost exclusively with literary work. Because of his sickly constitution, he was not in the charges of "complete incompetence" Wehrmacht convened.

It was not until 1949 that Müller began again with life drawing , made countless nudes in watercolors and oil pastels and took part in numerous exhibitions, including at the Bremen Artists' Association, the Graphisches Kabinett and the Kunsthalle Bremen. From the 1960s on, he only worked privately on nude studies and abstract works, such as a series of postcards with abstract watercolors around 1980.

From the age of 15, Müller kept diary entries, which he continued and revised in shorthand for life. Most of his painterly, graphic, literary and columnist work is in private hands. Some of his works are in the holdings of the Kunsthalle Bremen, the State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg and the Altonaer Museum in Hamburg. In 2009 in the exhibition “degenerate” - confiscated in the Städtische Galerie Bremen . Bremen artists under National Socialism also showed works by Müller.

Works (selection)

  • Little milliner. 1927 ( woodcut )
  • Self-portrait. 1929 (oil on canvas)
  • Portrait of a woman with a red hat. 1930 (oil on cardboard)
  • Remembering a thousand and one nights. 1935 ( linocut )
  • Suburban gardening. 1936 (linocut)
  • In the Grotenhof. OJ (oil on cardboard)

Exhibitions

  • 1929: December exhibition of the Bremen Artists' Union, Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1931: November exhibition of the Bremen Artists' Union, Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1932: December exhibition of the Bremen Artists' Union, Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1933: February exhibition, together with Max Böhlen , R. v. Harten, Fritz Husmann, Emil Röders, Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1933: November exhibition Die Kunst im Gau Weser-Ems , Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1933: December exhibition: Karl Arste, Heinz Baden , Hinrich Fokken-Esens , Karl Otto Matthaei , Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1933: June exhibition of the Bremen Artists' Union on the Hanseatic Fair Bremen, its landscape and its work , Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1935: August exhibition of the Bremen Artists' Union, Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1935: Kunstkabinett Maria Kunde, Hamburg
  • 1949: Graphic works by members of the Bremen Artists' Union, Kupferstichkabinett of the Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1950: Paintings, hand drawings, watercolors, etc. Plastic , Künstlerbund Bremen, Skulpturensaal Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1952: Paintings, sculptures, graphics , Künstlerbund Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1959: Bremer Künstlerbund, Kunsthalle Bremen
  • 1988: Bremer, Worpsweder and Oldenburg artists , auction house Bolland & Marotz, Bremen, 55th auction, December 9/10, 1988, No. 689 (Im Grotenhof)
  • 2009: “degenerate” - confiscated. Bremen artist under National Socialism , Städtische Galerie Bremen

literature

  • Müller, Hanns . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 437 .
  • Hanns Müller. In: Hans-Joachim Manske , Birgit Neumann-Dietzsch (ed.): “Degenerate” - confiscated. Bremen artist under National Socialism. On the occasion of the exhibition at the Städtische Galerie Bremen from September 6 to November 15, 2009, Städtische Galerie Bremen, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-938795-10-1 , pp. 98-101.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Müller, Hanns . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 437 .
  2. a b Anke Schmidt-Staufenber: Hanns Müller 1901 - Bremen - 1999 . Kunsthalle Bremen, online catalog, 2013.
  3. Hanns Müller. In: Hans-Joachim Manske and Birgit Neumann-Dietzsch (eds.): “Degenerate” - confiscated. Bremen artist under National Socialism. On the occasion of the exhibition at the Städtische Galerie Bremen from September 6 to November 15, 2009, Städtische Galerie Bremen , Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-938795-10-1 , pp. 99, 101.