Marguerite Müller-Yao

Marguerite Müller-Yao ( Chinese  姚 慧 , Pinyin Yao Hui ; born October 25, 1934 in Beijing , Republic of China ; † September 21, 2014 in Düsseldorf) was a Sino-German painter and art historian . The aim and main content of her artistic and scientific work were the cultural relationships and influences between China and the West.

Life

Marguerite Müller-Yao lived in Taipei / Taiwan from 1949 to 1964 . There she trained as a painter and calligrapher with Pu Ru (Pu Xinyu (溥 心 畬)) .

Since September 1964 she lived in Germany. From 1966 to 1974 she studied at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf with Joseph Fassbender (1966–1969) and Gert Weber called Weberg (1969–1974) and in 1974 passed the first state examination for the artistic teaching post at grammar schools. From 1974 to 1977 she was a lecturer at the University of Bonn - Studio for Art Education. Marguerite Müller-Yao received her doctorate in 1985 from the University of Bonn after studying art history , East Asian art history and Sinology with Eduard Trier , Eleanor von Erdberg and Rolf Trauschein with a dissertation on the influence of Chinese calligraphy on western painting.

From 1964 to 2012 she also took part as a painter in various art exhibitions.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1969 Galerie Porta, Wuppertal (solo exhibition)
• 1971 “Düsseldorf City of Artists”, New Fair
• 1968–1977 winter exhibition at Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
• 1972 Technical University of Aachen
• 1976 University of Bonn with CA Barthelmess
• 1976 "Neighborhood", Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
• 1978–1987 Large Düsseldorf art exhibition and annual exhibitions in Düsseldorf. Artist associations
• 1984–1985 “Salon des Nations”, Center International d'Art Contemporain Paris
• 1987 Kanazawa Art Museum Japan
• 1996 "Die Düsseldorfer '96" Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
• 2000 Musée des Beaux Arts, Tonneins / France
• 2000 Biennial of Drawing Pilsen / CZ (participation in exhibitions)

Publications

• Calligraphy in the graphic work of G. Hoehme. In: Catalog G. Hoehme. Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf and Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg, 1975.
• The Influence of the Art of Chinese Calligraphy on Western Informal Painting. Dissertation Bonn. Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-88375-051-4 .
• Informal painting and Chinese calligraphy. In: Informel: Encounter and Change. (= Series of publications of the Museum am Ostwall Dortmund. Volume II). Dortmund 2002, ISBN 3-611-01062-6 , pp. 322-347.
• The Influence of Chinese Calligraphy on Western Informel Painting. Düsseldorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-048980-8 .

literature

• Catalog exhibition "Düsseldorf, City of Artists" . Düsseldorf 1971.
• Günter H. Blecks: Marguerite Hui Müller-Yao. A Chinese artist in the art education studio . In: Bonner Universitätsblätter . 1975, p. 77-86 .
• Who is Who in the World . Chicago 1980.
• Dictionary of International Biography . Cambridge 1980.
• HJ Orth: Düsseldorf CREATIVE . Düsseldorf 1980.
• Academia Italia: Artisti Contemporanei . Salsomaggiore / Italy 1982.
• Encyclopedia Mondiale degli Artisti Contemporanei . Bologna / Italy 1984.
• Who's Who in International Art . Geneva / Switzerland 1991.
• Grupello-Verlag: The artist handbook, artists live in Düsseldorf . Düsseldorf 1991.
• The golden book . Nuremberg 1993.
• Who is Who in the Arts and Literature . Wörthsee / Munich 1983.
• Art Diary . Milan (1985-1996).
• General encyclopedia of artists . Nuremberg 1999.
• Dietger Müller: Marguerite Müller-Yao - A Chinese Artist in the West . Düsseldorf 2015.
• Dietger Müller: Marguerite Müller-Yao - A Chinese Artist in the West . Düsseldorf 2015.
• Johannes Rüther: Now - Seng-Ts'an: Heart-Spirit-Trust . Dortmund 2015.
• Johannes Rüther: The presence of the living line. From the art of Chinese calligraphy to free painting . Dortmund 2015.