Hans-Jürgen Müller (art dealer)

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Hans-Jürgen Müller (born April 8, 1936 in Ilmenau ; † May 27, 2009 in Stuttgart ) was a German gallery owner and author. He was a co-founder of the Cologne art market, realized numerous exhibitions and had his own extensive art collection. In 1984 he developed the future project "ATLANTIS", which he implemented from 1993 onwards under the title "MARIPOSA Future Workshop" on Tenerife.

Life

Müller learned the profession of typesetter in the GDR and moved to Stuttgart in 1952. In 1954 he became the production manager of the then most important journal for the graphic industry, the "Druckspiegel".

In 1958 he founded Galerie Müller (today "Galerie Artlantis Stuttgart") in Stuttgart, where he showed exhibitions by Cy Twombly , Willi Baumeister , Morris Louis , Robert Mangold , Peter Brüning , Günther Uecker , Dieter Roth and Jesús Rafael Soto , among others . He built up the " Kurt Fried " collection , which can now be seen in the Ulm Museum . As a result, Müller organized an artist exchange with Hungary and Japan. In 1967 Müller was a co-founder of the “1. Kölner Kunstmarkts ”, the first European art fair (today Art Cologne ). In 1969, the Müller Gallery in Cologne opened in the Lindenstrasse Gallery. There he showed exhibitions by Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Arnulf Rainer , Al Held , Rupprecht Geiger , Robin Page , Robert Filliou , Georg Karl Pfahler , Utz Kampmann and other artists. In 1971 he founded the Cologne Art Exchange.

Media and concepts

In 1972 he published his own art magazine, "Kunst-Spiegel". In 1973 he handed over his gallery to the employees and moved to Tenerife, where he wrote the successful book “Art does not come from can”, published in 1976, and developed the concept “New forms of life through art - Futura”.

In 1976 he returned to Stuttgart and began together with Dr. Rolf Krauss set up the “Art with Photography” collection, which is now owned by the State Gallery in Stuttgart . In 1978 he began with Ursula Schurr and Max Hetzler to design the exhibition "Europe '79 - Art of the 80s", in which works by Tony Cragg , Enzo Cucchi , Francesco Clemente , Reinhard Mucha , Günther Förg , Juliao Sarmento, Isa Genzken and other young artists could be seen. The 2nd art magazine "Allianz" appeared.

In the years 1979-82 he played a decisive role in the development of other large private collections, such as the important Informel collection from Dieter Grässlin, St. Georgen, the avant-garde collection Metzger, Bochum, (Junge Wilde) and the Udo + Ute Scharpff collection and others . a.

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In 1982 he and Helga Müller opened new gallery spaces in Cologne, Schaafenstr. 25. The then founded A®tlantis Kunst + Design GmbH showed exhibitions by artists such as Thomas Huber , Jan Knap , Blalla W. Hallmann , Peter Angermann , Robert Hartmann, Ulrike Zilly, Heinz Zolper and others. a.

From 1979 to 1984 Müller built up the collection "Deep Views - Art of the Eighties", which included works of art from the Federal Republic of Germany (e.g. Dahn, Dokoupil, Förg, Mucha, Kippenberger, Klingenhöller, A. Oehlen), the GDR ( Anderson, Ebersbach, Kerbach, Schleime, Sandner), Austria (Anzinger, Mosbacher, Schmalix, Stimm, Tezak) and Switzerland (Disler, Eigenheer, Fischli-Weiß, Ikemura, Schnyder, Wanner) and since then on loan to the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt is at home.

In 1987 Müller opened the “Kunstloft A®tlantis” in Stuttgart and held a series of exhibitions until 1994 such as: “100 Years of VfB Stuttgart”, “Portrait Exhibition Gerhard Meyer-Vorfelder”, Blalla W. Hallman, Teun Hocks, “Stuttgart- Pictures ”with works by Max-Ulrich Franz, Fred-Engelbert Knecht, Jürgen Kleinmann, Dirk Larsen and Heinz Zolper - as well as design and ethnological art from Africa, Australia and South America.

The "Mariposa" project

In 1984 Hans-Jürgen Müller and his wife Helga Müller launched the future project “Atlantis” with the aim of making a contribution to the necessary social change of course and helping to develop sustainable concepts for an aesthetically and culturally controlled future.

In 1985 the architect Léon Krier was commissioned to design the ATLANTIS project. The project and the Kriers design were first shown in 1987 in the Deutsches Architektur-Museum Frankfurt (catalog) and subsequently through numerous exhibitions (Stuttgart - Galerie der Stadt), Zurich (Architekturforum der ETH - catalog), Brussels (Fondation pour l'Architecture - Catalog), Bologna (university, architecture faculty) a. a.) as well as a large series of lectures and discussions presented to the public.

In July 1989, the spokesman for the board of Deutsche Bank, Dr. Alfred Herrhausen, "ATLANTIS" on the Deutsche Bank executive board matter. In September, however, he is the victim of an attack and the project cannot be carried out.

In the 1990s, the design was exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, NY, and the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; MOCA, Los Angeles; the Fundaçao Bienal, São Paulo, at the University of Yale (with Peter Eisenman) etc.

In 1989 the Stuttgart star architect Frei Otto developed the much smaller project entitled "MARIPOSA", the Spanish word for butterfly, which was presented with great interest in 1990 in Santa Cruz / Tenerife. Lightweight construction and sustainable constructions - but also the butterfly as a symbol of the mode of action of small impulses with far-reaching effects discovered in the chaos theory - gave the name.

At the invitation of Jan Hoet , the “Atlantis cultural project” was presented in its own pavilion on Friedrichsplatz in Kassel in 1992, despite a devastating arson attack ten days before the opening during the 100 days of documenta IX .

In 1991 Hans-Jürgen Müller published the book “ATLANTIS - MARIPOSA, Gift 2000”, which presents the philosophy and goals of “ATLANTIS” in a large number of text contributions. In 1992 the Atlantis Culture Prize Foundation was established. Prize winners include Heinrich Klotz , Bazon Brock , Helmut A. Müller (Hospitalhof Stuttgart), Alexander U. Martens (Aspects) and others

In 1992, a SWR team directed by Rudij Bergmann shot the film “Mensch Müller, let the world go under”.

In 2001 MARIPOSA took part in the thematic exhibitions: "The Life Reform", Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt - catalog; "Artist colonies in Europe", Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg - catalog - part. 2002 at the thematic exhibition "Luck - City - Space", Academy of Arts, Berlin - György Konrád; Catalog.

In 2003 the Club of Budapest in the New Palace in Stuttgart (laudation from Federal Minister E. Bulmahn) presented the “Change-the-World-Award” to Helga and Hans-Jürgen Müller for the creation of the MARIPOSA cultural project. (Choice among the "10 best projects in the world" - as the only cultural project . Also among the social projects: "People for people" by Karlheinz Böhm)

Realization of the MARIPOSA cultural park

In 1993 construction work began on the Mariposa cultural project in Arona on Tenerife . The designs by Léon Krier and Frei Otto were not pursued any further. Rather, the goal was now a design without architectural plans, but - developed with the participation of many artists - from the spiritus loci. Since then over 80 artists and artisans from all over the world have participated in the design of the site, including a. from England, USA, New Zealand, Spain, Russia.

In 1995, ZDF commissioned Gero von Böhm to produce a documentary with the title: "Butterfly dreams - the story of a utopia" (with the help of Thor Heyerdahl), which went in 1996 via the broadcaster and ARTE.

In 2000 the first event took place at MARIPOSA: the 1st Mariposion ® - “Power and Influence - Dare to Synergies”. As part of the “ MARIPOSA education offensive” founded in 2006, further symposia have been taking place since then , here Mariposien® , participants are upper school students from high schools, teachers and, since 2010, university professors from various faculties who work together on the development of new educational concepts with a focus on aesthetic teaching content. The scientific director is the philosopher and sociologist Dr. Joachim Rossbroich, who will be issuing a publication for MARIPOSA in 2017 that will summarize the results.

Philosophical workshops with e.g. B. with Prof. Nida-Rümelin and Reinhard Knodt, but also many workshops were a show and thought place for thought leaders. MARIPOSA is open to interested institutions to use the location for exclusive meetings, strategy conferences, workshops, sabbaticals, etc.

In January 2006 the government of the Canary Islands declared the Mariposa cultural project to be of “public interest”.

Publications

    • “Art does not come from being able to”, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Zirndorf 1976. ISBN 3-7630-1621-X ; 2nd edition 1977, Edition for Modern Art published by Belser Verlag; 3rd edition 1990, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg ISBN 3-922531-95-4
    • "ATLANTIS" - MARIPOSA - An interim balance sheet, Weitbrecht-Verlag, Stuttgart 1991 ISBN 978-3-5227-0890-6
    • "MARIPOSA future workshop", Lindinger & Schmitt publishing house, Regensburg 2001 ISBN 978-3-9299-7044-9
    • "MARIPOSA: the magic of a garden" . Wasmuth-Verlag, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8030-3323-9 .
    • The story of an idea: MARIPOSA. Incomplete factual report . parsprototo, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-938023-33-4
    • “Reflections that are worthwhile”, parsprototo Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-938023-47-1
    • SWR TV film by Rudij Bergmann (45 min.), “Mensch Müller, let the world end!” - 1992
    • ZDF / ARTE, TV film by Gero v. Boehm (with an opinion from Thor Heyerdahl)
    • "Butterfly dreams - the story of a utopia" -1995/96
    • ZDF - Jugend-Mariposion ® 2010 - 15 minutes DVD

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personal data
SURNAME Müller, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art dealer
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilmenau
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 2009
Place of death Stuttgart