Knut Müller (photographer)

Knut Müller , also Knut Mueller (* 1952 in Halle ), is a German photographer , photo designer and photo journalist . The subject of war has been a central focus of his work since 1989.

Life

Knut Müller is a son of the architect and civil engineer Herbert Müller . From 1970 to 1975 he studied at the University of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein in Halle. In 1978 he became a member of the photography department in the Association of Fine Artists of the GDR .

In 1986 his application to leave the country was approved and Müller worked as a freelance photo reporter in Hamburg . In 1988 he co-founded the MAGMA photography group in Hamburg. Since 1989 he has been working as a war photographer in the crisis areas of Albania , Croatia , Bosnia , Iraq , Somalia , Chechnya and Afghanistan . His photos have appeared in Spiegel , Merian , Focus , Geo , Stern , Max , Le Figaro , Sunday Times Magazine and Los Angeles Times , and can be seen at numerous exhibitions.

Müller has lived in Hamburg and Halle (Saale) since 2004. Since 2005 he has been a board member of the Association of Hallescher Künstler.

Exhibitions (selection)

1983: IX. Art exhibition of the GDR in Dresden
2000: State theater in Prishtina / Kosovo
2003: Marktschlößchen Gallery in Halle
2003: Zeitkunstgalerie in Leipzig
2003: Kunsthalle Villa Kobe in Halle (Saale)
2004: Galerie Levy in Hamburg
2005: Kulturstadthaus in Halle
2005: Leucorea Foundation in Wittenberg
2007: Kunsthalle Villa Kobe in Halle (Saale)
2007–2008: Wolfen Industry and Film Museum .
2011: Linguistic Reformation, Wittenberg.
2014: From rubber tree leaf to world standard: HP shell construction in Halle-Neustadt as a pioneer of Eastern Modernism in the Halle City Museum .

References:

Photo projects

saint & mystical , since 1999
warheads , since 2001
war & crises , since 2003
armored nudes , since 2003
Mezzogiorno , since 2005

Fonts

Afghan dream. A war reporter tells. Prospero Verlag , Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-941688-18-6 .
From rubber tree leaf to "world level". HP shell construction in Halle-Neustadt as a pioneer of the East Modern. In: Peer Pasternack (ed.), 50 years of dispute in Halle-Neustadt. Idea and experiment. Place of life and provocation. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2014, ISBN 978-3-95462-287-0 , pp. 170-173.

Web links

Knut Müller's website
Photos from German cities. Ruined, restored, evacuated. In: Spiegel Online , April 15, 2005, on Mezzogiorno in East Germany
War photography. "As close as possible". In: Spiegel Online , August 12, 2003, about war & crises
Of Crises and War. ( Memento of November 5, 2003 in the Internet Archive ). In: The Globalist , Boston, 2003

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Knut Mueller - Photo installation WAR. From March 22 to April 29, 2007. ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Villa Kobe .

^ Steffen Könau: Neustadt co-builder Herbert Müller. GDR national prize for “Schalen-Müller” patent. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , July 21, 2014.

↑ ^a ^b ^c Knut Mueller: Biography. In: knut-mueller-artphoto.de , accessed on September 18, 2016.

↑ ^a ^b Vita Knut Mueller. In: City of Halle , January 12, 2007.

↑ Wolfen Industry and Film Museum: War. Photo installations by Knut Mueller. Duration: October 11, 2007 to January 13, 2008. In: kunst-und-kultur.de .

↑ Photo series: Linguistic Reformation. Knut Mueller. In: kunstplattform-halle.de , accessed on September 18, 2016.

↑ From rubber tree leaf to world level. ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 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. In: kunstplattform-halle.de , accessed on September 18, 2016.
stm: Exhibition on the construction of the Lankow swimming pool opened. ( Memento from September 25, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Schwerin-lokal.de , September 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Müller, Knut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mueller, Knut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Halle (Saale)

[Villa_Kobe-1] Knut Mueller - Photo installation WAR. From March 22 to April 29, 2007. ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Villa Kobe .

[2] Steffen Könau: Neustadt co-builder Herbert Müller. GDR national prize for “Schalen-Müller” patent. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , July 21, 2014.

[K.M.-3] Knut Mueller: Biography. In: knut-mueller-artphoto.de , accessed on September 18, 2016.

[Stadt_Halle-4] Vita Knut Mueller. In: City of Halle , January 12, 2007.

[5] Wolfen Industry and Film Museum: War. Photo installations by Knut Mueller. Duration: October 11, 2007 to January 13, 2008. In: kunst-und-kultur.de .

[6] Photo series: Linguistic Reformation. Knut Mueller. In: kunstplattform-halle.de , accessed on September 18, 2016.

[7] From rubber tree leaf to world level. ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 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. In: kunstplattform-halle.de , accessed on September 18, 2016.
stm: Exhibition on the construction of the Lankow swimming pool opened. ( Memento from September 25, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Schwerin-lokal.de , September 2015.