Karl Müller (painter)

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Karl Muller

Karl Müller , also Carl Müller (born October 29, 1818 in Darmstadt , † August 15, 1893 in Bad Neuenahr ), was a German late Nazarene painter of the Düsseldorf school .

Life

Müller was the son of the court painter and gallery director Franz Hubert Müller (1784–1835). Like his older brothers Andreas and Constantin , he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy after training with his father , where he was enrolled from 1835. After initial lessons with Karl Ferdinand Sohn , he was instructed there from 1836 by Wilhelm Schadow . As his master student he was listed in 1849/1850. In 1839 he went on a trip to Italy with Franz Ittenbach, accompanied by Schadow, to study the fresco painting of the Quattrocento . From 1840 to 1842 he lived in Rome , where he met Peter von Cornelius and Friedrich Overbeck , among others . From there he went on study trips to Tuscany and Umbria . In the spring of 1843 he studied the monumental Cornelius frescoes in the Ludwigskirche in Munich . From 1844 to 1850 he worked with Ernst Deger , Ittenbach and his brother Andreas on the painting of the Apollinari church in Remagen , a major work of late Nazarene painting of the Düsseldorf school. In 1857 Müller became a professor of history painting at the Düsseldorf Academy and a member of the supervisory board of the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia . Since then, Müller has been preparing for the painting of the pilgrimage church Notre-Dame de la Garde in Marseille , a job that was planned for a painting period of ten years but was not carried out due to financial problems and the Franco-Prussian War . Together with Karl Woermann , Müller represented the Düsseldorf Academy in 1877 at the inauguration of the new building for the Vienna Art Academy . From 1883 to 1893, Müller took over the directorship of the Düsseldorf Art Academy from Hermann Wislicenus after disputes over his person had arisen. Also until 1893 he was in charge of the “Antikensaal” at the Academy.

Works (selection)

Girl's head , 1835 (black and white photo, 1906)
Altarpieces in St. Remigius (Bonn) - left: Anna with Maria , 1882 - right: Joseph with the baby Jesus , 1882

Müller mainly created religious paintings in the late Nazarene style. Many of his paintings became known through engravings and photographic reproductions. In addition, Müller worked as a portrait painter.

  • Girl's Head , 1835
  • The risen Christ in the midst of his disciples , watercolor, 1837
  • Christ with his disciples in the Ährenfelde , watercolor, 1837
  • Tobias with the angel , 1838
  • Portrait of sister Friederike , souvenir picture around 1838
  • Caritas , 1839
  • Annunciation , sepia drawing after Fra Angelico ( San Marco Monastery, Florence ), Museum Kunstpalast
  • Various devotional pictures for the Association for the Dissemination of Religious Images , from 1841 (for example The Holy Family at work , The Holy Family resting , Immaculata conceptio , Mother of the Redeemer , Virgin Mary )
  • together with Ernst Deger , Franz Ittenbach and Andreas Müller : painting of the Apollinariskirche (Remagen) , 1844-1853 (frescoes: Coronation of Mariae , Birth of Mariae and The Exemplary Women , The Annunciation , Apocalyptic Lamb )
  • Madonna with the child, in the midst of Saints Heinrich and Hedwig , 1854 for Prince-Bishop Heinrich Förster
  • Maria and Elisabeth , acquired by Heinrich Förster in 1859
  • Overgrown castle ruins , watercolor over pencil drawing, Darmstadt 1861
  • Holy Family , chalk drawing, 1872, Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York
  • Madonna in front of the grotto , 1876
  • Joseph with the baby Jesus , altarpiece for St. Remigius (Bonn) , 1882
  • Anna with Maria , altarpiece for St. Remigius (Bonn), 1882

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Müller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bettina Baumgärtel: National, regional and transnational. The monumental painting of the Düsseldorf School of Painting - Apollinariskirche and Heltorf Castle . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 118.
  2. ^ Dieter Graf, p. 123.
  3. ^ Bettina Baumgärtel: Chronicle of the Düsseldorf School of Painting 1815–2011 . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, pp. 365, 370, 372.
  4. ↑ Dieter Graf, p. 125 (Figure 89), 126; see. also Paul Kaufman: Wilhelm von Schadow, a renewer of Rhenish art life. The painting of the Stolzenfels Castle Chapel by Ernst Deger . In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine , 115 (1929), p. 395 ff.
  5. ^ Friedrich Schaarschmidt: On the history of Düsseldorf art, especially in the XIX. Century . Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, p. 142 f.
  6. ↑ Denise Steger: The Düsseldorf School of Painting in the 19th Century , Chapter 6.2 Religious Painting . Website from July 30, 2015 in the portal rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de ; accessed on November 13, 2015
  7. ↑ Walter Rothes: The Madonna in her glorification through the fine arts of all centuries . Bachem, Cologne 1905 (reprinted by Unikum Verlag, Barsinghausen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8457-0305-3 ), p. 129 ff., 133 figure 93, 134 figure 94.
  8. ↑ Dieter Graf, p. 125; Wend von Kalnein (ed.): The Düsseldorf school of painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 410 f. Catalog no. 174.
  9. ^ Website in the Metropolitan Museum database , accessed November 13, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German late Nazarene painter of the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1893
Place of death Bad Neuenahr