Harry Müller

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Harry Müller (born September 25, 1930 in Leipzig ; † April 19, 2020 ) was a German sculptor .

Life

One of the fountains on Sachsenplatz in Leipzig (Photo: 1979)
The consumer department store at Brühl, called "Blechbüchse" (Photo: 2009)

Harry Müller began his training in 1951 at the Technical School for Applied Arts in Leipzig , before he moved to the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee from 1953 to 1960 and studied sculpture with Heinrich Drake and Waldemar Grzimek . Already during his studies he developed his own abstract- geometric design language , in close connection with architecture . Müller found inspiration for his artistic future primarily from the Bauhaus architect Selman Selmanagić , at the time head of the architecture class at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art.

After successfully completing his studies, Harry Müller returned to Leipzig, where due to the abstract form of his art, also influenced by Hans Arp and Richard Buckminster Fuller , he did not realize any exhibitions of his own, but made an impact within Leipzig through architectural projects in the 1960s / 1970s could. In this time, the most famous in the public works fall miller: the listed windowless curved facade of aluminum with numerous individual hyperbolic Paraboloidelementen the consumer department store (1967-1968) and the sculptures in the fountain in the former Leipziger Sachsenplatz (1971-1972 ). The sculptures popularly known as "dandelions" to this day were removed and stored in 1999, and since May 2013 they can be found on the redesigned Richard-Wagner-Platz in front of the aluminum facade of today's Höfe am Brühl .

Later independent works such as “Heliozoon I” (1973–1976) were included in the collections of Leipzig museums or presented in exhibitions.

In 2010, the German Society for Crystallography honored his life's work with the prize to promote the interdisciplinarity of crystallography .

Harry Müller lived and worked in Leipzig.

Works (selection)

Art in public space :

Other works:

  • 1973–1976: Heliozoon I, Museum of Applied Arts Leipzig, chrome-nickel steel bars, height approx. 2.50 m
  • 1990–1991: Heliozoon III, version for the Hotel Astoria Leipzig , chrome-nickel steel, height approx. 2.50 m

literature

  • Christine Dorothea Hölzig: With a sense of geometry and the laws of nature. About the sculptor Harry Müller. In: Leipziger Blätter , 52, 2008, pp. 10–12.

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ^ Sculptor Harry Müller - The father of the Leipzig tin can is dead , Leipziger Volkszeitung from April 26, 2020, accessed on April 26, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2020