Walter Heinrich Müller
Walter Heinrich Müller also Müller-Glinz (born February 22, 1861 in Guggenbühl , Winterthur ; † August 25, 1948 in Amriswil ; resident in Winterthur) was a Swiss modeller and arts and crafts teacher .
Life
Family and education
Müller, fourth of six children of the headmaster Johann Jakob Müller (1827–1901) and his wife Maria Magdalena née Merk (1831–1901), studied after attending secondary school in Winterthur at the industrial school in Zurich and at the technical center in Winterthur. He then moved to the École nationale supérieure des arts Décoratifs and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Paris , where he also received further training as a painter and sculptor in various studios for ceramics . In 1887 Walter Heinrich Müller began studying at the School of Applied Arts in Vienna , which he completed in 1889.
Müller married Mathilde Charlotte Wilhelmina Glinz (1872–1944), who was born in Singapore on September 10, 1894 in Winterthur . The daughter Marie Anna Hedwig (1895–1975) came from this connection. Müller, who suffered from arteriosclerosis in 1923, died in the late summer of 1948 at the age of 87 in Amriswil.
Professional background
After his return to Switzerland, Müller founded a terracotta business in Amriswil in 1885 , and in 1889 Müller followed a call as the main teacher of the arts and crafts department at the industrial school in Bragança in northern Portugal. In 1891 Müller moved to the royal institute for art, industry and trade in Oporto as a professor . Müller, to whom this institute owed numerous suggestions, finally returned to Switzerland in 1900, where he took on a teaching position at the arts and crafts school at Biel's technical center, which he resigned in 1923 due to illness.
The artistic oeuvre of Walter Heinrich Müller, who worked in France, Portugal, Austria and Switzerland, spans in particular designs for applied arts and portrait reliefs for tombs.
literature
- Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 7. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-23163-6 , p. 280 ( limited preview in the Google book search; there different year of death: 1942).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Walter Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müller-Glinz, Walter Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss modeller and arts and crafts teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guggenbühl , Winterthur |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1948 |
| Place of death | Amriswil |