Wilhelm Müller (painter)

Wilhelm Müller (born March 18, 1928 in Harzgerode , † October 29, 1999 in Dresden ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

After training as a dentist from 1952 to 1953, Müller worked as a stomatologist until 1979 . At the same time he worked artistically from 1961 and took lessons from Hermann Glöckner in Dresden from 1964 to 1966 as his only student. Since 1980 Müller worked as a freelance artist in Dresden and, at the same time, from 1980 to 1989 research assistant at the State Museum of Ethnology in Dresden, for which he built up a collection of Islamic peasant and nomad carpets.

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Starting in 1961, Müller created abstract composition studies as action painting while dealing with informal painting . Between 1965 and 1985, suggested by Hermann Glöckner, the so-called “constructive exercise” developed by Müller. From 1990 he worked on the groups of works “Variations on a Theme by Otto Freundlich ” and “Reason and Tenderness”. In his work, Müller repeatedly alternated between expressive-gestural and constructive-non-objective forms. He is one of the few non-objective artists in the GDR who work against the state ideology of socialist realism .

Collections

State Lindenau Museum , Altenburg
National Gallery , Berlin
Federal Collection, Bonn
Museum of Fine Arts , Graphic Collections, Budapest
Brandenburg art collections, Cottbus
State art collections , Kupferstichkabinett , Dresden
State art collections , Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister , Dresden
Art Fund of the Free State of Saxony, Dresden
Museum of Young Art , Frankfurt (Oder)
Municipal art collections, Freital
State Gallery Moritzburg, Halle
Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
State Gallery , Graphic Collections, Stuttgart
National Gallery, Graphic Collections, Warsaw
National Gallery of Art , Washington
Museum in the Kunstspeicher, Würzburg
From the Heydt Museum , Wuppertal
Museum Haus Konstruktiv , Zurich

literature

Sigrid Hofer (Ed.): Gegenwelten. Informal painting in the GDR. The example of Dresden, Frankfurt aM / Basel: Stroemfeld 2006, ISBN 978-3-87877-968-1 .
Siegfried Ottilie: Dr. Wilhelm Muller. In: Well-known, famous and well-deserved daughters and sons of the city of Harzgerode. Harzgeroder Hefte 7, 2015, pp. 43–48. ISBN 978-3-942975-13-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Müller, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 18, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Harzgerode
DATE OF DEATH	October 29, 1999
Place of death	Dresden