Leopold Ludwig Muller
Leopold Ludwig Müller (born January 21, 1768 in Berlin ; † January 21, 1839 there ) was a German painter amateur during the Romantic period .
Live and act
Müller was the son of a Berlin merchant selling spices and dyes. He showed an interest in painting from childhood. He already had contact with the art of painting at home. His art-loving father owned, among other things, a collection of pictures and engravings and was in contact with the court painter Joachim Martin Falbe , in whose artist meetings he took part. The son liked to hear stories about the lectures there, "and already got a secret feeling for art in [his] youth, because [he] likes to see works of art, [...]."
When Müller came to the “ Graues Kloster ” grammar school in Berlin at the age of ten , he received methodical drawing lessons for the first time from the painter and wax engraver Otto Christian Sahler (1732 / 33-1810), and “would have liked everyone else to have lessons against them Drawing lessons swapped. ”At the request of his father, the 14-year-old began a commercial apprenticeship in his parents' material store after finishing school. In order to be able to devote himself entirely to his training, he was banned from painting, so that he “could [only] quietly satisfy his passion for drawing” and “the business that was incumbent upon him was much more difficult than it really was. “In order to present him the commercial activity“ from a brilliant side ”, the father sent him with a related merchant from Königsberg in the Neumark to Stettin . There he was supposed to "see the real life and goings-on of trade [...] in the opinion that [his] thoughts would thereby get a different direction." The desired success of this trip, however, did not materialize.
Back in Berlin, he repeatedly asked his father for an artistic training, which eventually allowed him to go to the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts and Mechanical Sciences in Berlin . From February 1790, Müller attended the drawing class of the portrait and history painter Ferdinand Collmann and from March the plaster class of the painter J. Graetsch (before 1770–1805). He also joined a group of classmates who painted plaster casts in the evenings, presumably to study the contrasting effects of light and shadow under lamplight. The group included the artists Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath , Carl Friedrich Hampe (1772–1848) and Ernst Friedrich Bussler (1773–1840), who later became famous . He also studied drawings by Abraham Bloemaert and painted landscapes “from nature”. Müller later etched paintings from his father's collection, including pictures by Roelof Jansz. van Vries (around 1631 – after 1681), Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich and Jan van Goyen tried the aquatint technique and copied drawings by the portrait and history painter Johann Christoph Frisch under the guidance of the academy director and book illustrator Johann Wilhelm Meil (1733–1805) . With his work, Müller took part in the Berlin academy exhibitions from 1791 to 1795 as an “academy student” or “aspiring artist”.
When his father became dependent on his support in dealing with materials as he got older, Müller gave up studying art and only painted watercolors in his free time . In 1802 he married and lived at Markgrafenstraße 74. At the academy exhibition in 1804, which he presented with landscapes “after nature” in ink and etching , he was already listed as a dilettante . His father died in 1806, so that for a while he could only devote himself to business and only later, with the support of his former classmate Karl Friedrich Hampe, painted landscapes “based on nature” in oil . Since 1810 both have regularly participated in the Berlin academy exhibitions, where Müller showed landscape, mood and genre pictures . In the catalog of the art exhibition of 1838, the genre pieces “Return of a village schoolmaster from the tavern”, “Disturbance during music lessons” and “Change of residence” are noted.
When the "Berlinische Künstlerverein" was founded on November 22nd, 1814 at the suggestion of the architect and painter Louis Catel , which appointed the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow as its first chairman, Müller was one of the founding members. In 1827 he gave up his business and devoted himself entirely to art. His works are now owned by the Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation , the SPSG , the National Gallery and in the Kupferstichkabinett , where three albums with historical Berlin cityscapes that Müller collected from artist friends are kept.
Works (selection)
- King's Thor Square , drawing, around 1779
- The Französische Strasse in Friedrichstadt with the house for French preachers widows , pen drawing, around 1780, Kupferstichkabinett
- The Academy of the Arts - 1699 beginning of lessons in the building of the electoral stables on Unter den Linden , pen drawing, undated, Kupferstichkabinett
- The Colonade at the Koenigsbrücke , and Koenigsstrasse , drawing, 1784
- The Brandenburg Gate , lithograph, around 1792, Kupferstichkabinett
- Friedrichstadt with the Spittelbrücke , Leipziger Straße and Dönhoff-Platz , watercolor, 1793
- View from the Kottbusser Tor into the city , watercolor drawing, around 1795, Kupferstichkabinett
- The mills on Mühlendamm in 1804 - view from the waterfront , drawing, before 1800
- The Holy Spirit Church in Spandauer Straße , watercolor drawing, around 1800, Kupferstichkabinett
- View of Spandau with the Nikolaikirche , oil on canvas, around 1800
- Rousseau Island in the Tiergarten Berlin , engraving, around 1800
- The Welpersche Badeschiff - the first public bathing establishment in Berlin (from October 2nd, 1802) , copperplate engraving, around 1802, copperplate engraving cabinet
- View over the Spree to the rear buildings of Poststrasse , drawing, 1804
- The Royal Casthouse (view from the north), colored drawing, 1804
- View of the Fountain Road to the beggar Jews House, from Rosenthaler Thor seen from , pen drawing, colored, 1807, Kupferstichkabinett
- Tegel Castle and its surroundings: the country house of the court secretary Joachim II , watercolor, around 1810, Reinickendorf local history museum
- Pontonhof , drawing, around 1816
- Self-portrait , 1819, Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation
- The lock with the lock bridge on the Spree , watercolor, around 1820, Kupferstichkabinett
- The St. Mary's Church , watercolor drawing, around 1820, Kupferstichkabinett
- The synagogue of the Berlin Jewish Community in Heidereutergasse , aquatint drawing, 1821, Kupferstichkabinett
- The observatory in Dorotheenstrasse , watercolor drawing, 1824, Kupferstichkabinett
- The Panke flows into the Spree on Schiffbauerdamm , drawing with watercolors, around 1825, Kupferstichkabinett
- Bathing tent for the higher ranks , watercolor, 1827, Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin
- Café Stehely on Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin , watercolor, 1827
- The Royal Museum , lithography, around 1828, Kupferstichkabinett
- Thor in old Landsberg [Strausberger Tor], lithograph, 1829
- Berliner Thor zu Alt Landsberg , lithograph, 1829
- The Friedrichwerder Church on Werderschen Markt , lithograph, around 1832, Kupferstichkabinett
- View from the Rosenthaler Tor into the city under the government of Friedrich Wilhelm III. , watercolor drawing, undated, Kupferstichkabinett
- Werderscher Markt with coin , pen drawing, undated, Kupferstichkabinett
- The stock exchange [at that time in Burgstrasse ], lithography, undated, Kupferstichkabinett
- View of the old and new tower of the Marienkirche , etching, colored, undated, Kupferstichkabinett
- View from the Waisenbrücke to the Inselbrücke , pen drawing, undated, Kupferstichkabinett
- Dogs with a hunted roebuck , oil on canvas, undated
- The entry of the Prussian Crown Prince couple on the steamship ›Ishora‹ in St. Petersburg in June 1834 , gouache , 1834, SPSG
- The Spandauer Tor and Pulverturm ( Spandauer Straße ) 1700 , drawing, before 1838
literature
- Reimar F. Lacher: Artist (auto) biographies. In: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences: Berlin Classics. A metropolitan culture around 1800. 2005, p. 50 ff. ( Berliner-klassik.de PDF; 1.2 MB).
- Müller, Leopold Ludwig . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 242 .
Web links
- The former and present Berlin smb.museum-digital.de
- Müller, Leopold Ludwig: Berlin, Heiliggeistkapelle zeno.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Baptismal register of the Marienkirche, fol. 602r. Regional Church Archive in Berlin (ELAB).
- ↑ a b c d e autobiography by Leopold Ludwig Müller, 1820.
- ↑ Death book of Sophienkirche, No. 49/1839. Regional Church Archive in Berlin (ELAB).
- ^ Reimar F. Lacher: Artist (auto) biographies. P.56.
- ↑ Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general KünstlerLexicon, or messages from the life and works of painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, die cutter, lithographer, illustrator, Medals and Ivory, etc . 3. Edition. tape 11 . Schwarzenberg & Schumann, Leipzig 1936, p. 104-105 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ). Or Volume 10, EA Fleischmann, Munich 1841, p. 13 ( books.google.de ).
- ^ Reimar F. Lacher: Artist (auto) biographies. P. 50.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Müller, Leopold Ludwig |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter dilettante |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1768 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1839 |
Place of death | Berlin |