Martin Paul Müller (painter, 1872)

Martin Paul Müller (1872–1936), Am Schilfgraben , color etching

Martin Paul Müller (born June 29, 1872 in Landsberg (Warthe) , † November 27, 1936 in Bremen ) was a German painter and graphic artist who worked in the Worpswede artists' colony .

biography

Müller (signature Martin Paul Müller - etchings with the signature “von MPMüller” are subsequently signed by a third party) studied at the arts and crafts schools in Berlin and Weimar and the academies in Leipzig and Munich. He then mainly occupied himself with prints and made himself known in Bremen as an etcher around 1901 . From Bremen he came into contact with the neighboring landscape of the Teufelsmoors at an early stage , in 1913 he finally moved to Worpswede , where he founded the Worpswede artist press in 1919 , which has made a name for itself as a workshop for artist graphics and especially as a copperplate press. It was continued by his nephew, the copperplate printer Herbert Jaeckel, who also printed etchings for his artist friends Horst Janssen and Friedrich Meckseper .

With his Worpswede etchings (landscape, portrait), MP Müller was an essential pacemaker in the popularization of Worpswede. He was a member of the “Economic Association of Worpswede Artists”, the “Artists' Association of Bremen” and the “Reich Association of German Artists (Berlin)”.

Exhibitions

• Netzel Gallery, Worpswede

literature

Dressler's art manual , Karl Curtius Verlag 1930, page 696.