Johann Georg Müller (artist)

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Johann Georg Müller in his studio, in the background 'Plants by the Sea, 1965'

Johann Georg Müller (born November 17, 1913 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , † June 20, 1986 in Koblenz ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

After graduating from secondary school and doing an apprenticeship as a carpenter, Johann Georg Müller enrolled in civil engineering at the Darmstadt University of Technology in 1934 . He switched to the same subject in Munich, where he gave up his studies after a short time. In the Pinakothek there he trained himself on the works of Wilhelm Leibl and Hans Holbein .

From 1937 Müller worked as a freelancer, but the Nazis banned him from exhibiting in the following year. After the war he worked on the printing techniques of woodcuts, etchings and lithography. In 1949 he took part in an exhibition of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Pfälzer Künstler (APK), which he continued until 1979. He became a member of the New Palatinate Group. In the following year he received a one-year studio grant on the Asterstein in Koblenz, where he has lived since then and joined the Association of Fine Artists on the Middle Rhine (AKM). From this point on, he increasingly turned to painting. In the years that followed, his paintings and graphic works were shown several times in various solo and group exhibitions in Rhineland-Palatinate in Koblenz, Kaiserslautern, Ludwigshafen and Prüm, nationwide in Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg and Darmstadt and internationally in Paris and Seattle. In 1956 he received the Palatinate Prize for Painting . Four years later he was awarded the Rhineland-Palatinate Prize for Young Artists. After a stay in Crete he was inspired to write a group of works of plant pictures. In 1965 he became a member of the Palatinate Secession . In 1983 he received the Culture Prize of the City of Koblenz.

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Müller's work was characterized by stylistic pluralism . Müller opposed the real world with a mental, transformed world of images by alienating the chosen image motifs in such a way that they can only be perceived as ciphers of an external reality.

literature

  • Werner Scholzen (Ed.): Johann Georg Müller 1913–1986 . Directory of paintings and prints. Arranged and commented by Urs Roeber. 2nd Edition. Droste-Verlag , Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-7700-1405-7 .
  • Johann Georg Müller, oil paintings and tempera pictures. Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern (publisher), September 4 to October 4, 1970.
  • Johann Georg Müller, painting, Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum Mainz (ed.), December 15, 1981 to January 13, 1982.
  • Johann Georg Müller, Drawings - Woodcuts - Photographs, Middle Rhine Museum Koblenz (Ed.), Künstlerhaus Metternich, May 13, 1984 to June 3, 1984.

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personal data
SURNAME Müller, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1986
Place of death Koblenz