Philipp Müller (copper engraver)

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Photo by Philipp Müller
Parts of the "Burgenland" service series (here blue version) by Philipp Müller

Philipp Müller (born February 13, 1811 in Wallerfangen ; † November 27, 1893 there ) was a German engraver , illustrator and caricaturist .

Life

In 1805 the Müller family moved from Wicker to Wallerfangen, where their father Philipp Müller (1776–1842, married from November 25, 1806 to Anna Maria Delfoss from Niederlimberg, approx. 1783–1815) worked as a painter in the Villeroy ceramics factory & Boch recorded. Philipp Müller was born there in 1811. Müller's mother Anna Maria Delfoss died when he was four years old. Seven weeks after her death, on April 7, 1815, her father married Elisabeth Gottdanck (1775–?) From Merzig for the second time. In 1825, Philipp Müller began an apprenticeship as a copper engraver in the Wallerfang stoneware factory, where his father also worked. His trainer in Wallerfangen was John Leigh from Burslem, England . The most famous designs include a plate series on the life of Napoleon, the Burgenland series with castle motifs from Saar , Rhine and Moselle , humorous hunting scenes and a series with country motifs . He also designed the service "Jardinière" with floral motifs. Müller was one of the few designers who were allowed to sign their motifs.

In a sideline he worked as an illustrator and caricaturist. During the Franco-Prussian War he supplied wood engraving drawings to the Leipziger Illustrierte and the weekly Über Land und Meer . Drawings showing life on the Saar during the war of 1870/1871 and shortly thereafter have also been preserved.

Müller was married to Catharina Hetzler (1819–1897) from May 17, 1836. The marriage had three children: Philipp Müller d. J. (1837–1896), Catharina Sophie Müller (1840–1886) and Pierre Müller (1847–1921). Both sons also became engravers at Villeroy & Boch.

Exhibitions

literature

  • Beatrix Adler: Wallerfanger earthenware - history and products of the Villeroy Vaudrevange manufactory (1791–1836) and the earthenware factory Villeroy & Boch Wallerfangen (1836–1931), 2 volumes, Saarbrücken 1995.
    • Text volume, pp. 168, 170, 266
    • Catalog volume, pp. K 345, 346, 400, 408, 596, and pp. 348, 354, 365, 371, 373
  • Günter Scharwath: artist and factory clerk . The draftsman and engraver Philipp Müller . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung, March 4, 1995
  • Johannes Werres: How the hunting scenes got on the plate . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , Saarlouis edition, June 29, 2017, p. C4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Müller, Philipp . In: Günter Scharwath: The large artist lexicon of the Saar region . Saarbrücken 2017 (Geistkirch-Verlag), p. 737 f.
  2. ^ Fritz Kloevekorn: Saarbrücken's past in the picture . (= The Saar region's past in pictures , Volume 1), Saarbrücken 1934 (Verlag Gebr. Hofer), p. 208 f., Fig. 226–229.
  3. ↑ Beatrix Adler: Wallerfanger earthenware - history and products of the Villeroy Vaudrevange manufactory (1791–1836) and the earthenware factory Villeroy & Boch Wallerfangen (1836–1931) . 2 volumes, Saarbrücken 1995, volume 1, pp. 55, 67, 117, 168, 170, 201, 266.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engraver, illustrator and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Catfish catch
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1893
Place of death Catfish catch