Josef Felix Müller

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Josef Felix Müller (born December 10, 1955 in Eggersriet ) is a Swiss sculptor , graphic artist and painter .

biography

After training as an embroidery designer, Josef Felix Müller began to develop artistically as an autodidact. His first works showed, among other things, the human body in pictures in which sexuality is expressed as a driving force in such a provocative way that in 1981 three of his pictures were confiscated as "indecent publications". From 1982 he made life-size wooden sculptures with a chainsaw. The art historian Peter Weiermair counts Müller's figures, made with saws and ax cuts from poplar and willow trunks, "among the most concise formulations of figurative art of the eighties".

In 1985 he founded Vexer-Verlag in St. Gallen and co-founded the Kunsthalle St. Gallen , which he also directed from 1993 to 1995. From 1996 to 1999 he worked as a lecturer for plastic design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich .

In parallel to his painting and sculpture work, a large graphic print work with more than 400 woodcuts, etchings and lithographs in books and as single sheets was created - with a changing theme . In recent years, Müller returned to painting and concentrated on landscape paintings. In doing so, he processes his digital landscape photographs by enlarging them on the canvas and painting over them in many layers. This is how images such as the Lichtraum series (2006 and 2007) are created with great luminosity and color.

On May 24, 2014, the artist was elected President in Turtmann on the occasion of the annual meeting of delegates of the central board of Visarte Switzerland (Professional Association of Visual Art - Switzerland). After 7 years he succeeds Heinrich Gartentor .

Josef Felix Müller has lived and worked in St. Gallen since 1975 .

Works (selection)

Works in public collections

Exhibitions

Books, catalogs, graphic portfolios

  • Petals. Josef Felix Müller . Section Switzerland of XYLON , Zurich 2008
  • Josef Felix Müller. Painting . König, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-86560-049-2
  • Night book . (Ed.) Vexer-Verlag, St. Gallen 2005, ISBN 3-909090-35-4
  • Josef Felix Müller. Etchings 1998 - 2000 . König, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-88375-418-8
  • Josef Felix Müller. Schwind Gallery . Frankfurt / M. 1998, ISBN 3-932830-35-0
  • Josef Felix Müller. Early pictures, new sculptures . König, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-88375-248-7
  • Josef Felix Müller . Vexer-Verlag, St. Gallen 1995, ISBN 3-909090-24-9
  • Interface. Gustav Kluge, Josef Felix Müller. 1995/96 . Municipal Art Museum Spendhaus, Reutlingen 1995, ISBN 3-927228-64-8
  • Josef Felix Müller. Catalog raisonné of prints 1976 - 1992 . Oktagon-Verlag, Munich / Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-927789-37-2
  • Josef Felix Müller. Cut . DAAD , Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-89357-030-6
  • Josef Felix Müller, butter, milk, soap . Vexer, St. Gallen 1990, ISBN 3-909090-08-7
  • Josef Felix Müller. Fumble through the fine mist of sensuality . Vexer, St. Gallen 1987
  • Josef Felix Müller. Sculptures . Public Art Collection Basel 1987, ISBN 3-7204-0033-6

literature

  • Gerhard Mack: Josef Felix Müller. Painting . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung on Sunday February 26, 2006
  • Corinna Schatz: head births. On the graphic work of Josef Felix Müller . In: Josef Felix Müller. Catalog raisonné of prints 1976 - 1992 . Oktagon-Verlag, Munich / Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-927789-37-2
  • Kristin Schmidt: body spaces . In: St. Galler Tagblatt from November 22, 2002
  • Ursula Badrutt Schoch: Hiking is the miller's delight . In: St. Galler Tagblatt from January 28, 2006
  • Maria Smolenicka: Müller, Josef Felix . In: SIKART - Lexicon and database on art in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein , Zurich

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Weiermair , Roland Wäspe and Rainer Michael Mason in: Josef Felix Müller. Catalog raisonné of prints 1976 - 1992 . Munich / Stuttgart 1992
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Josef Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Eggersriet