Rolf Müller-Landau

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Rolf Müller-Landau, around 1953
Signature Rolf Müller-Landau

Rolf Müller-Landau (born June 5, 1903 in Kia Ying Chow, China ; † December 2, 1956 in Bad Bergzabern ; born Rudolf Hanns Christian Müller ) was a German painter and co-founder of the Palatinate Secession .

Life

One year after his birth, his parents took him to live with relatives in Lohr am Main and returned to China. In 1910 he moved with his parents to Landau in the Palatinate . From 1922 to 1929 he studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe (then "Badische Landeskunstschule") and from 1924 to 1929 he was a master student of Ernst Gustav Würtenberger . In 1930 he settled in Landau as a freelance artist and has since added the addition "Landau" to his name. In 1935 he married Hermine Siering. In 1945 the family moved to nearby Heuchelheim after the Landau apartment and studio were destroyed. In 1945/46 he founded the Palatinate Secession with friends and won a. a. Hans Purrmann , Edvard Frank , Werner Gilles , HAP Grieshaber and Gustav Seitz as members. From 1951 to 1955 Rolf Müller-Landau was a member of the board of the German Association of Artists . On December 2, 1956, Müller-Landau died after a serious illness in Bad Bergzabern in the Palatinate.

In Landau (Palatinate) a street in the “Malerviertel” was named after the artist.

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Müller-Landau's early work was mainly determined by Impressionist works of strict composition and perfect craftsmanship. During this time, he mainly created oil paintings , watercolors , woodcuts and drawings of landscapes , portraits and still lifes . After the increasingly gloomy work during the National Socialist rule, the end of the war felt like a liberation for Müller-Landau, which was also reflected in his work. After 1945, he was increasingly influenced by the art of France, which was previously difficult to access in Germany - especially that of Georges Braque , Paul Cézanne , Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso - and his work achieved national recognition.

Murals , mosaics and church windows also originate from this phase , especially in sacred buildings. Particularly noteworthy are his color-cut monotypes, a printing technique he developed: hand-painted wood and linocuts were printed on wafer-thin Chinese rice paper. Rolf Müller-Landau succeeded in amalgamating painting and printmaking. Each individual color cut monotype was thus unique.

An important part of his late work are a large number of watercolors, which were inspired by a trip to the south of France, from the Rhone Valley via Haute Provence to the Côte d'Azur .

Throughout his life, it was above all the artistic discourse with artist friends that ensured the continuous development of his work. Above all, Willi Baumeister , Josef Dobrowsky , Edvard Frank, Werner Gilles, HAP Grieshaber, Karl Hofer , Hans Purrmann, Daniel Wohlgemuth, Gustav Seitz and Theo Siegle, with whom he was in lively correspondence, should be mentioned here. Despite the artist's temporary creative phase, his oeuvre includes more than 2000 works.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1926: Palatinate painting today , Ludwigshafen
  • 1927: Exhibition by the Reichsbund Deutscher Kunsthochschule, Leipzig
  • 1934: Galerie Bettie Thommen, Basel
  • 1943: Young art in the German Reich , Vienna. The exhibition was closed prematurely as "degenerate".
  • 1946: Opening exhibition of the Palatinate Secession, Speyer
  • 1947: German contemporary art , Woldemar Klein Verlag, Baden-Baden
  • 1948: XXIV Venice Biennale
  • 1949: 2nd German Art Exhibition , Dresden
  • 1950: Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath , Frankfurt am Main
  • 1950: The image of man in our time , Darmstadt
  • 1954: German art after 1945 , Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam
  • 1955: III. São Paulo Biennial
  • 1956: Modern German art in Delhi , Delhi, India

since 1957: memorial exhibitions a. a. in Berlin, Heidelberg, Kaiserslautern, Landau, Mannheim, Saarbrücken, Speyer, Wiesbaden and New York.

Works in public collections (selection)

Works by Rolf Müller-Landau are among others. a. owned by the Albertina in Vienna, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen in Munich, the Historisches Museum der Pfalz in Speyer, the Kunsthalle Bremen , the Landesmuseum Mainz , the Library of Congress in Washington, the Kunsthalle Mannheim , the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern , the Wallraf-Richartz- Museum in Cologne or the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen.

Literature (selection)

  • Kurt Friedrich Ertel: The painter Rolf Müller . In: Der Turmhahn, Speyer 1957.
  • Wolfgang Müller: My brother Rolf . In: Der Turmhahn, Speyer 1957.
  • Walter Schmeer: Rolf Müller-Landau . In: Saarbrücker Hefte, Saarbrücken 1957, pp. 85–86.
  • Otto Schneider: On the religious work of Rolf Müller . In: Der Turmhahn, Speyer 1957.
  • Memorial exhibition Rolf Müller-Landau . Pfälzische Landesgewerbeanstalt, Kaiserslautern 1960.
  • Rolf Müller-Landau. Life and work . Evangelical Academy of the Palatinate, Speyer 2003, ISBN 3-00-011743-1 .
  • Uwe Schramm: Rolf Müller-Landau (1903 - 1956): Synthesis between color and form . In: Umbruch: Painter of a Lost Generation, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-496-01174-2 .
  • In conversation with Rolf Müller-Landau . Evangelical Academy of the Palatinate, Speyer 2006, ISBN 3-00-019936-5 .
  • Barbara Clemens: Rolf Müller-Landau (1903-56). Studies of life and work . Dissertation with catalog raisonné of the paintings, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz 2007.

documentary

  • The painter Rolf Müller-Landau . Portrait, 44 min., Germany, 1987, director: Ingrid La Plante, production: Südwestfunk

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Art and Artists in Rhineland-Palatinate, Volume 2: Rolf Müller-Landau . Landesbildstelle Rheinland-Pfalz, Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein 1968, p. 6
  2. ↑ www.zeitenwende.de: The Palatinate Secession as an association and community of artists. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 9, 2007 ; Retrieved November 18, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeitenwende.com
  3. ↑ www.kuenstlerbund.de: Board members of the German Association of Artists since 1951. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 6, 2008 ; Retrieved November 18, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  4. ^ Rolf Müller-Landau, Life and Work , Evangelical Academy of the Palatinate, Speyer 2003, ISBN 3-00-011743-1 , p. 174
  5. ^ A b Art and Artists in Rhineland-Palatinate, Volume 2: Rolf Müller-Landau . Landesbildstelle Rheinland-Pfalz, Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein 1968, p. 7
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Landau, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Rudolf Hanns Christian (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Kia Ying Chow, China
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1956
Place of death Bad Bergzabern