Hugo Mühlig

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Fishermen by their boats
Hugo Mühlig: Summer walk
Hugo Mühlig: driver boy

Hugo Mühlig (born November 9, 1854 in Dresden , † February 16, 1929 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter . From 1881 he lived in Düsseldorf as a painter of landscapes and genre scenes .

life and work

Hugo Mühlig was the son of the Dresden landscape and genre painter Meno Mühlig (1823–1873) and a nephew of the landscape and animal painter Bernhard Mühlig (1829–1910). He learned painting first from his father, then at the Dresden Art Academy , most recently from 1877 to 1880 as a master student of Viktor Paul Mohn (1842–1911). While he remained true to the realism of Ludwig Richter's school for a long time in his drawings , he broke new ground in painting soon after he moved to Düsseldorf in 1881. Although his paintings (mostly of small or medium format) from the usual viewing distance are characterized by great attention to detail and perfect reproduction of material values, close-up shows that these effects are achieved with great virtuosity through the use of impressionistic painting techniques.

The impressionistic character of his paintings is also due to the fact that the landscapes and scenes of harvesting farmers, hunters in wintry fields or strollers to the fair are almost always bathed in bright sunlight, which allows the colors of the objects to shine particularly pure and unadulterated. With regard to the composition, his paintings are characterized by the fact that, from a slightly elevated point of view, the objects and figures of the foreground and the near middle distance are particularly accentuated and usually grouped by one or two diagonals from the viewing point to the left and / or right edge of the horizon become.

The distance often only takes up a small strip in the center of the picture, the upper half (or at least the upper third) is filled by the almost always clear blue sky, in front of which some trees or houses regularly stand out clearly. This clear composition scheme, which corresponds to a somewhat theatrical arrangement of people and animals, indicates that his paintings were usually created in the studio after all, but based on a large number of fresh sketches made in nature, which he usually as gouaches or Executed watercolors . For these impressions he traveled regularly to Willingshausen in the Schwalm from 1883 to 1891 and became a member of the Willingshausen painter colony . In Düsseldorf he was a member of the Malkasten artists' association from 1887 until his death in 1929, and of the secessionist Free Association of Düsseldorf Artists from 1891 .

Since Hugo Mühlig was not an official academician, borne by public contracts, but a freelance painter for the art market, many of his paintings are still in private hands. Preserve exemplary works a. the Neue Galerie Berlin , the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf , the Neue Galerie in Kassel and the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne.

In 1882 he married Amalie Auguste Otto († 1907). They had a daughter Anna (1888–1969) who was married to the architect and painter Hans Blüthgen (1885–1966).

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