Peter Müller (art historian)

Peter Müller (* 1967 in Roßlau ) is a German art historian and publicist.

Life

Müller studied computer science, art history and journalism at the University of Rostock and the Free University of Berlin . In 1997 he received his Magister Artium with a work Symbol with a view on the planning and construction history of the Berlin TV tower . From 1998 to 2001 he was a member of the Graduate School Political Iconography at the University of Hamburg and was a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation . In 2002 he did his doctorate with a thesis ( search for symbols ) on the history of East Berlin representative architecture in the German-German context.

Peter Müller researches the connection between politics and style in art and architecture after the Second World War . He has also been working as a journalist for national newspapers since 1992; among others for the Berliner Zeitung , Die Welt , FAZ . From 2003 to 2005 he worked as a personal advisor to the Minister of State for Culture Christina Weiss . Müller lives in Berlin.

Publications

• The domes of Rome: masterpieces of architecture from two millennia . Böhlau Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-412-04001-7 .
• Icon with a view. The history of the Berlin TV tower . Verlag Bauwesen, 2000, ISBN 978-3-345-00761-3 .
• Search for symbols: East Berlin's central planning between representation and agitation . Gebrüder Mann, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-7861-2497-9 . (= Dissertation)
• Bauhaus tradition and GDR modernity. The architect Richard Paulick . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-422-06628-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biographical summary of Peter Müller at perlentaucher.de
• baunetz.de : Review of symbol search. East Berlin center planning between representation and agitation
• Photography by Peter Müller