Heinrich Friedrich Müller
Heinrich Friedrich Müller (born May 1, 1779 in Hanover , † September 15, 1848 in Vienna ) was an art and music dealer and publisher of the first good German picture books.
In 1805 he moved to Vienna, married the widow of the art dealer Lukas Hohenleithner (1747–1796) around 1807, took over the Hohenleithner art dealership and established himself a little later in the shop of the late Hieronymus Löschenkohl at Kohlmarkt No. 1218.
Picture books for the youth were at that time of inferior perfection, “more graffiti, without any artistic value”. Müller wanted to refine the picture books and employed the first masters of his time such as Loder, the copper engravers Blaschke, Stöber, Steinmüller, Panheimer, Benedetti and others.
In addition to the picture book publisher, he published games for young people such as Glocke und Hammer , which were popular in northern Europe, and so-called art tickets, which he distributes throughout Europe. He sometimes employed more than 150 colorists to create 3000 embroidery patterns .
In 1848 he became a music dealer and edited Friedrich von Flotow's Martha and David's Columbus , among others .
At his suggestion, chromolithography was introduced in Austria . He was a co-founder of the Vienna Art Association and head of the committee of Viennese art dealers. His daughter Karoline married Albrecht Krafft .
His widow sold the story in 1858 to Franz Wessely and Friedrich Büsing, who continued it under Wessely & Büsing . Büsing soon resigned and Wessely sold it to Vinzenz Kratochwill in 1885. Since 1889 this business has merged with the company Bosworth & Co., founded in Vienna in 1869 .
Fonts
- Picture books for young people, which were published by HF Müller's publishing house in Vienna and are available from G. Jaquet in Munich ;
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Müller, Heinrich Friedrich . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 19th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1868, pp. 355–357 ( digitized version ).
- Austrian music lexicon .
- Carola Pohlmann: Colorful scenes from human life. Leopold Chimani and his publisher Heinrich Friedrich Müller , in: Gunda Mairbäurl u. a. (Ed.): Childhood, childhood literature, children's literature: studies on the history of Austrian literature; Festschrift for Ernst Seibert . Vienna: Praesens, 2010 ISBN 978-3-7069-0644-9 , pp. 69–82
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Heinrich Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian art and music dealer and picture book publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1779 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1848 |
| Place of death | Vienna |