Walter Müller (lithographer)

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Walter Müller
The orchids of Central Europe, Friedländer & Sohn, 1904

Wilhelm Walter Müller (born November 30, 1845 in Gera ; † July 15, 1927 there ) was a German draftsman, lithographer and editor of important botanical works.

Life

Walter Müller was born in Gera as the son of a trucking company. Originally he wanted to be an artist, went to Dresden and had connections with students of Ludwig Richter , whom he admired very much. Due to the sudden death of his father in 1864, he had to go back to Gera to make a living. Later he turned primarily to lithography. From autumn 1867 to summer 1869 he found a job in the Friedrich Wilhelm Stopp book printing company in Tetschen / Bohemia. Around 1870 he moved back to Gera and joined the lithographic institute of Gustav Hermann Reibestein, whose partner he soon became. In 1873 the newly founded company Lithographische Anstalt Reibestein & Müller appeared for the first time in the Gera address book.

The first publications of botanical works can be traced back to 1879 (tables in the “Pocket Book for Plant Collectors”). The main period of his lithographic work was between 1880 and 1910. During this time around 6,000 plant panels were created as watercolor or lithograph . Some of the works were published in-house. As a recognized homeland researcher, he mainly dealt with the Thuringian botany around Gera.

In 1892 Walter Müller acquired the property at Schillerstraße 7a from the businessman Otto Lebe and the company "Bornschein & Lebe" located on it, which he continued under this name. In 1903 he registered a second company "Walter Müller Lithographische Anstalt, Stein- und Buchdruckerei" at the same address. In 1919, for reasons of age, the company "Bornschein & Lebe" was given up and his lithographic establishment was sold to the newly founded United Art Printers Kurt Lehmann & Co. OHG. The co-founder and managing director of this company was one of his sons, the lithographer Werner Müller.

In 1873 Walter Müller married Elise Emma Pendorf, who died after only five months. Three years later he married Elise Anna Hofmann, the daughter of the Gera kit maker Heinrich Ernst Hofmann. His business partner Gustav Hermann Reibestein had become his brother-in-law a year earlier through the marriage of his younger sister Ottilie Ida Hofmann. The marriage had four children. The second wife also died early (1885) and he then married his childhood sweetheart Henriette Marie Kathinka Carlow, c. Master on February 18, 1886 in Gera. She brought two children of her own from her first marriage. Four more children followed with Walter Müller. Werner's twin brother, Wilhelm Paul, became a painter and signed Willy Müller-Gera in honor of his hometown .

Walter Müller died on July 15, 1927 in Gera.

Works

Walter Müller made lithographs for the following works, among others:

  • Fischer, Emil: Pocket book for plant collectors , 1st edition, Verlag Oskar Leiner, Leipzig 1879
  • Schlechtendahl, Hallier: Flora von Deutschland , Vol. 9–30, Verlag Fr. Eugen Köhler, Gera-Untermhaus 1882–1889
  • Thomé, Otto Wilhelm: Flora of Germany, Austria and Switzerland in words and pictures for school and home , 4 volumes, published by Fr. Eugen Köhler, Gera-Untermhaus 1888
  • Instructions for assessing the horse hay along with 129 plates depicting the particularly noteworthy grasses and herbs , published by Fr. Eugen Köhler, Leipzig 1889
  • Goethe, R., Herm. Degenkolb u. R. Mertens (Ed.): The most important German pome fruit varieties, Verlag A. Nugel, Gera 1894
  • Correvon, Henry : Album des orchidées. - 60 planches coloriées. , W. Kündig & Fils, Geneva 1899
    Signature of orchids from 1899 and 1904
  • Walter Müller: Illustrations of the basic forms of the orchid species occurring in Germany and the neighboring areas. Gera 1900
  • Tümpel, Rudolph Prof. Dr .: The Geradflügler of Central Europe , Wilkens Verlag, Eisenach 1901
  • Kränzlin, Fritz : Images of the basic forms of the orchid species occurring in Germany and the neighboring areas. , R. Friedländer & Sohn, Berlin 1904 (W. Müller 1900 with new texts)
  • Hahn, Gotthold: The mushroom collector , Verlag Hermann Kanitz, Gera 1903

literature

  • 90 years Gebr. Frank. From zinc etching to digital multi-color printing. A chronicle by Dr. Harald Frank, Gera 2004

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Donation to the Museum für Naturkunde Gera: Orichideenbuch by Gera lithographer Walter Müller. In: gera.de. City administration of Gera, January 18, 2018, accessed on August 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Wilhelm Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman, lithographer and editor of important botanical works
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1927
Place of death Gera