Johann Friedrich Müller (copperplate engraver)
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Müller (born December 11, 1782 in Stuttgart , † May 3, 1816 Sonnenstein near Pirna ) was a German engraver .
Life
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Müller was the eldest son of the copper engraver Johann Gotthard Müller and his second wife Rosine, née. Bulkhead. He suffered from the peeling at an early age and suffered from a weak constitution. He attended grammar school in Stuttgart until he was 18, but decided against a career as a scientist and for training as an artist. From 1798 he dealt with engraving; his first works were two small-format sheets, one of which showed a genius after Hendrick Goltzius , the other a genius with dolphin after Gérard Edelinck .
Müller was trained by his father in Stuttgart, but also frequented the studios of artist friends, especially the Danneckers . Studies in Paris followed, but he had to interrupt them due to illness. Under the guidance of the painter Franz Peter Kymli, he learned oil painting during a stay in the country before he returned to Paris. The engravings of Venus de Arles for the Musée français and La Jeunesse after Le Masson originate from the time in Paris , the representation of which in copper engraving with a technique developed by him still showed the marble of the statue. He also worked there on the evangelist Johannes after Domenichino , whose drawing he had already created in Stuttgart, and on the portrait of Crown Prince Wilhelm von Württemberg . In 1804 he returned to Stuttgart, where he completed Johannes . The Dresden art dealer Rittner commissioned him to engrave the Sistine Madonna in 1806 , which led Müller to go on a study trip to Italy via Dresden to get to know the works of Raphael . In 1809 he returned and continued to work on the Madonna engraving, along with a number of portraits, including an engraving by Schiller based on a bust created by Dannecker and an engraving by Hebel . In 1811 he married Henriette Rapp, a niece of Gottlob Heinrich Rapp and a relative of Dannecker's who had been brought up in the house of this artist. From the marriage, Karl Friedrich Johann von Müller and one other child emerged. He became royal court engraver and in 1814 professor at the Academy of Arts in Dresden .
During his time in Dresden he also created a portrait drawing of the poet E. T. A. Hoffmann , perhaps as a preparatory work for a copper engraving that could no longer be made. Jürgen Glauner writes in an essay about this work, “that what is depicted in Müller's drawing is actually Hoffmann, namely the most precise and detailed portrait, in short: the best we know, by the hand of one of the greatest his guild and his century. "
In 1816 he completed the engraving of the Sistine Madonna, which was soon widespread. Hermann Grimm judged this work: "Only one engraver has succeeded in getting close to the painting, Friedrich Müller, whose work is considered to be the best that modern copper engraving has ever produced."
After that, probably also due to the upheavals in Dresden and changed working conditions, he could no longer decide to work anymore, began to suffer from emaciation and religious delusions, which led to his eating almost no more food, and finally got up the Sonnenstein near Pirna in the care of the psychiatrist Dr. Ernst Gottlob Pienitz handed over. It is possible that he jumped out of a window there after outwitting his guard and found death.
literature
- Nekrolog in Morgenblatt of August 8, 1816, p. 757.
- Andreas Andresen : Life and works of the two copper engravers Johann Gotthard von Müller and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Müller , in: Archives for the drawing arts with special reference to copper engraving and woodcutting and their history 11th year, 1st issue, 1865, p. 1–41 ( digitized version ).
- Berthold Pfeiffer: The engravers Johann Gotthard Müller and Friedrich Müller. In: Württembergische Vierteljahrshefte für Landesgeschichte , Volume 4, 1881, pp. 161–179, 257–281
- Müller, 46) Friedrich, engraver . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 14, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p. 236 .
- René Hartmann: Müller, Johann (es) Friedrich Wilhelm , in: Bénédicte Savoy, France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital. Volume 1: 1793-1843 . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 206–209.
- Christian Rümelin: Johann Gotthard Müller and the Stuttgart Copper Engraving Institute . Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7995-7862-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Andresen: Life and works of the two copper engravers Johann Gotthard von Müller and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Müller , in: Archives for the drawing arts with special reference to copper engraving and wood cutting and their history, 11th year, 1st issue, 1865, p 1–41, here p. 27
- ↑ Andresen 1865, p. 28
- ^ A b August Wintterlin: Müller, Johannes Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 617-620.
- ^ Müller, Friedrich, Kupferstecher , In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 12, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1885-1892, pp. 56-57.
- ^ Christian Rümelin: Johann Gotthard Müller and the Stuttgarter Kupferstecherei-Institut , Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-7995-7862-5 , Fig. 58
- ↑ Andresen 1865, p. 28 f.
- ↑ ETA Hoffmann Society .
- ↑ Jürgen Glauner: A rediscovered Hoffmann portrait .
- ↑ Ruhr-Uni Bochum ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Andresen 1865, p. 30
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Johann Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müller, Johannes Friedrich Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1782 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1816 |
| Place of death | Sonnenstein Castle near Pirna |