Hellmuth Mueller-Leutert
Hellmuth Mueller-Leutert (born September 15, 1892 in Gießen as Hellmuth Mueller , † December 5, 1973 ibid) was a German painter , graphic artist and sculptor .
Life
Hellmuth Mueller attended the ancient language grammar school in Worms from 1907 and studied medicine and law in Gießen from 1912 . During his studies he became a member of the Corps Teutonia . At the First World War, Mueller took over as war volunteer cavalry, later as a pilot in part. Back at university, he switched to studying agricultural sciences, but also dropped out. Instead, he embarked on a commercial career and joined his father's cigar factory. At the same time, he turned to his artistic inclinations and studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main with Professor Hermann Treuner and at the painting school of Hans Hofmann in Munich. He also learned on site from the Giessen sculptor Johannes Ködding in 1919/20. In 1920 he married the daughter of the Giessen professor Ernst Leutert , Elsbeth, and took the name Mueller-Leutert . The family lived in the Leutert villa .
On May 18, 1943, Mueller-Leutert was one of the founders of the Oberhessischer Künstlerbund (OKB) , which wanted to counter the "propaganda questioning of the fine arts by the National Socialists with a piece of bourgeois, individual freedom and the ideal of freedom in art". Thanks to the support of local cultural politicians, the OKB was licensed by the Reich Chamber of Art, but isolated after a few dissident public exhibitions. In April 1944, Mueller-Leutert's only son died as a Luftwaffe pilot near Munich. When Gießen was destroyed in the same year, a large part of his early work was destroyed. The cigar factory was also badly damaged. After it was sold in 1954, Mueller-Leutert worked as a freelance painter.
His semi-abstract works were influenced by New Objectivity and Expressionism , especially the work of Edvard Munch , Emil Nolde and Max Beckmann . Mueller-Leutert painted landscapes and interiors, still lifes and figures. His landscape painting is strongly influenced by maritime themes. He died in December 1973 in his hometown Gießen and was buried there in the old cemetery . The city of Giessen dedicated a personal exhibition to him in the congress hall in 1982.
literature
- Peter Petersen: Hellmuth Mueller-Leutert. To the painter and friend on his 75th birthday . Giessen 1967
- Margarete Dierks: Hellmuth Mueller-Leutert. In the transition area "Objective Abstract" . In: International Art Bulletin, Trimestriel, XVIème Année, No. 67, pp. 7-11
- Elsbeth Mueller-Leutert (ed.): Catalog for the memorial exhibition Hellmuth Mueller-Leutert in the art exhibition rooms of the Giessen Congress Hall, September 24-10, 1982 . Giessen 1982
- Dagmar Klein: Better an easel than a cigar factory . In: Gießener Allgemeine, September 14, 2017 online
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mueller-Leutert, Hellmuth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mueller, Hellmuth (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, graphic artist and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | to water |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th December 1973 |
| Place of death | to water |