Rolf Müller (artist)

Rolf Müller (born May 21, 1941 in Sachsendorf , Thuringia ) is a German painter , graphic artist and textile artist .

Live and act

Rolf Müller was born in Sachsendorf (Thuringia) in 1941 and passed his Abitur in Meiningen . From 1959 to 1963 he studied German and art education at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . At the same time, he attended the evening academy at the University of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig . From 1965 to 1970 he studied applied arts / painting at the University of Industrial Design in Halle, Burg Giebichenstein under Professors Lothar Zitzmann , Willi Sitte and Hannes H. Wagner .

Since 1970 he has been with the restorer Elke Müller geb. Singer married.

After graduating in 1970, he became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR , which was transferred to the BBK Saxony-Anhalt after the fall of the Wall in 1990 . Since his diploma he has worked at the University of Industrial Design in Halle, Burg Giebichenstein, first in basic studies, since 1987 in the field of painting / textiles.

In 1990 he became the founding representative for the field of art education at the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy in Halle in conjunction with the Martin Luther University in Halle. In 1994 he was appointed professor for art education at the Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle. He was commissioned to found the art education and visual arts courses in the specialist field. Since that time he has taught in the open subject "Free Art".

After several stays at the partner university in Vietnam , a guest professorship followed in 2000 in Hanoi - Academy of Art and Design. Since 2002 he has given several guest lectures at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in the People's Republic of China .

In 2006 he retired.

In addition to his teaching activities, Rolf Müller worked continuously as a textile designer and draftsman. It was only after graduating that he found printmaking .

"Here he mainly used the sophisticated color lithography, the hand printing of five stones ... He tried out the technique of etching with his professor colleague from China and incorporated his findings into a very special edition of Laotse's 'TAO-TE-KING'." Quote by Dr. Regina Fasold, director of the literature museum "Theodor Storm" Heilbad Heiligenstadt

Ralf-Michael Seele, director of the "ada" gallery in Meiningen wrote:

“Playful cheerfulness and cheerful play - paired with knowing seriousness - lives in the works of Rolf Müller. For him, balance is the means: the spiritual and the sensual are in balance; Edgy balances out the organic. Perception corresponds to imagination; Innovation alternates with tradition. Order also respects chaos. "

Since Rolf Müller was trained at Burg Giebichenstein, he is one of the few who have mastered the technique of picture knitting , tapestry weaving, from which works were repeatedly created. The influence of his travels to Central and Southeast Asia, most recently to the Caucasus region of Armenia and Georgia, is noticeable in his later work . His work as a textile artist also influences his graphic work. Rolf Müller prefers hand-made paper from Vietnam, which, thanks to the organic fibers, gives the ink drawing space and depth in a special way.

In addition to his artistic work, Rolf Müller also organizes exhibitions. a. in the Hallesches Kunstverein and the Association of Hallescher Künstler. In 2015, Rolf Müller designed the catalog 50 of 100 , ways of an academic year from 1965, for an exhibition at the Kunstverein Talstrasse Halle, he was also the editor.

Exhibitions (selection)

Since 1975 numerous solo exhibitions at home and abroad and participation in national and international exhibitions for graphics and textiles etc. a. in
Dresden: Art exhibitions of the GDR . VIII. 1977/78, IX. 1982/83
Berlin: 100 selected graphics from the GDR: 1979
Schwerin: Color graphics of the GDR. 1980 and 1984
Warsaw: Museum of Art and Design. 1992
Quin Dao: Museum of International Art 2002

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Hanoi (Goethe-Institut), 1997,
Hallescher Kunstverein 1994 and 2001
ADA Gallery, Meinigen 2001
Heilbad Heiligenstadt 2014,

further exhibitions in Gera, Leuna, Lünen, Magdeburg Memleben, Suhl.

literature

Textile '80. 2. Exhibition of textile design in the GDR - Museum des Kunsthandwerk Leipzig 1980;
Weaving art in the GDR - the new medium for avant-garde artists. A catalog from Galerie Neiriz, text Eva Mahn , 1985;
Rolf Müller 7´87. Monika Kaintoch Gallery on Steinweg Suhl, 1987;
Catalog: Tkaci: Kowary 1987 - Wystaw Artystycznych - Wrocław;
Rolf Müller's tapestry in Elisabethenburg Palace - Meiningen. (Editor: Kulturbund eV Suhl) 1989;
First Bitterfeld graphic plein-air 1989. Author Dr. Hans-Georg Sehrt; Rolf Müller "Graphics and Textiles"
Giebichenstein Castle. The Halle art school from the beginning to the present. Halle and Karlsruhe 1993, ISBN 3-86105-076-5 ( ISBN 3-86105-076-05 );
Catalog for the exhibition of the Hallesches Kunstverein eV 1994;
Contemporary textile art in Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Hollich, Vienna 1995;
State artist catalog Saxony-Anhalt. VBK Saxony-Anhalt 1994;
Borderland. Deng Guo Yuan, Rolf Müller, Nguyen Thien Duc. Leaflet and catalog for the exhibition in Halle, Meiningen and Kleinsassen, Dr. Hans-Georg Sehrt 2001–2002;
On the way - the foreign in one's own. Catalog of the municipal gallery ada Meiningen by Ralf-Michael Seele, 2002;
Graphics from Halle an der Saale. I-IV, catalogs with texts by Dr. Hans-Georg Sehrt, 1990 to 2011;
Contemporary art from France, Poland and Germany. Catalog for the exhibition in Hildesheim 2003;
Guanxi Relationships - ten artists from Halle and Tianjin. For the exhibition in the Volkspark - Halle, 2005;
Otto Möhwald , Rolf Müller, Gerhard Schwarz - painting and graphics. Flyer for the exhibition in the gallery in the cCe Kulturhaus Leuna, 2008;
Meeting point 1000 degrees. Catalog for the exhibition in the museum near the market - Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe and gallery of the city museum - Christian-Wolf-Haus, Halle, 2007;
Article by Peter Schmitt in New Ceramics May / June 2007;
Cut in wood - homage to HAP Grieshaber. A graphic portfolio with text by Prof. Knoell, Hallescher Kunstverein eV 2009;
Still life from 1990 to 2010 in Saxony-Anhalt. Hallescher Kunstverein, Halle (Saale) 2010, ISBN 978-3-941498-05-1 , catalog;
Tapestry from Halle on the Saale. Catalog, Hovhannes Scharambeyan - National Museum of Folk Art - Yerevan, 2012;
Blossom harvest - works on paper. Leaflet for the exhibition in the Wein-Galerie im Schweigenberg;
Preserving the past - literature and graphics. To an exhibition by Elke and Rolf Müller in the literature museum "Theodor Storm" Heiligenstadt, 2014 and Hallescher Kunstverein October 2, 2014 to December 19, 2014 Halle (Saale)
50 out of 100 . Ways of an academic year, Kunstverein Talstraße Halle (Saale) for the 100th anniversary of the Burg Giebichenstein Art College, 2015, ISBN 978-3-932962-80-6 , editing and design by Rolf Müller

Working in collections

In addition to being privately owned, graphic works and tapestries are in the following public collections:
Quin Dao: Museum of International Art
State Art Collections Dresden (Pillnitz)
Johannes Brahms Hall and Elisabethenburg Palace in Meiningen
Art collections in Bernburg Castle
Academy of Sciences Berlin
Mitteldeutsche Energie AG Halle (MEAG)
Landes-Versicherungs-Anstalt Halle (LVA Halle)
Bonn: Museum of German History

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Dietmar Eisold (ed.): Lexicon Artists in the GDR. 1st edition. New life publishing house, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , p. 636.
^ Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (ed.): IX. Art exhibition of the GDR. Dresden 1982/83, p. 336.

personal data
SURNAME	Müller, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, graphic artist and textile artist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 21, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sachsendorf , Thuringia

[1] Dietmar Eisold (ed.): Lexicon Artists in the GDR. 1st edition. New life publishing house, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , p. 636.

[2] Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (ed.): IX. Art exhibition of the GDR. Dresden 1982/83, p. 336.