Johannes Mück

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Johannes Mück
Alpine motif (1875)
Signature of the painter: J. Mück 1877
View of the special exhibition MÜCK - en Kunstmalerfamilie i Haderslev og Hamborg in the Museum Sønderjylland (2013)
Hindsgavl Castle near Middelfart (1877)

Johannes Peter Jürgen Mück (born February 19, 1831 in Rantzau , Duchy of Holstein ; † March 24, 1919 in Hadersleben , province of Schleswig-Holstein ) was a German-Danish landscape painter .

life and work

In his youth, Mück attended a school for handicraft painting in the Duchy of Holstein. As a young painter he traveled through Germany in the 1850s and stayed a. a. 1854 in the Kingdom of Saxony . Soon afterwards he moved to Hadersleben (then the Danish Duchy of Schleswig ), his mother's hometown, where he was granted citizenship in 1858 . There he also taught at the craft school. The Danish-Swedish painter Ole Kruse (1868–1948) was one of his students . Mück lived and worked in Hadersleben until his death, where he earned his living as a handicraft painter and as a painter, sometimes also with pictures to order. In the second half of his life he also went on study trips, for example to Lake Lucerne (1870), the Alps (1875) or Italy (1889). On the trip to Italy he took his 23-year-old son Carl Johannes with him.

Mück actually specialized in landscape painting, but occasionally also painted still lifes . Mück always signed his paintings, mostly in the late Romantic style , with “ J. Mück ”. When his son Carl Johannes Mück later also used this signature, his father signed as "J. Mück sen." . Some of his works are now in the fund of the Sønderjylland Museum in Hadersleben, but the majority are in private hands.

family

Mueck was the son of Johann Gotlieb Mueck (1776- ??) from Rendsburg , Staff Sergeant ( Sgt ) at the 5th Battalion of the Holstein Infantry - regiment in Rendsburg, and Anna Margarethe Gyesen (1788- ??) from Hadersleben. He married his cousin Maren Schmidt on July 9, 1857 in Husby (born October 16, 1841 on Brandsø ; † February 9, 1921 in Hadersleben) and had three daughters and four sons with her. Two sons were also painters: Wilhelm Lauritz Mück (1859–1914), of whom only two paintings are known, stayed in his native town of Hadersleben all his life. Carl Johannes Mück (1866–1922) worked mainly as a landscape painter, initially in Hadersleben. In 1895 he decorated the interior of the small church in Vilstrup Sogn with his paintings. In 1905 he moved to Hamburg and lived there until his death.

Exhibitions

Nothing is known about exhibitions during Mück's lifetime. Between September 1 and October 20, 2013, a special exhibition was held at Museum Sønderjylland under the theme MÜCK - en Kunstmalerfamilie i Haderslev og Hamborg .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This is what his painting An der Zschopau near Erdmannsdorf in Saxony suggests.
  2. ↑ Kruse later became known for his religious and symbolic works.
  3. ↑ Hans Christian Davidsen: Art that he helt nede på jorden. In: Flensborg Avis Online. August 29, 2013, accessed October 24, 2013 (Danish).
personal data
SURNAME Mück, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mück, Johannes Peter Jürgen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Danish landscape painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Rantzau , Duchy of Holstein
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1919
Place of death Hadersleben , Schleswig-Holstein Province, Prussia