Willy Müller-Gera

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Willy Müller-Gera (civil Wilhelm Paul Müller ; born September 17, 1887 in Gera ; † December 28, 1981 in Rödental ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Emergency note from 1921, design by Willy Müller-Gera

Willy Müller-Gera was introduced to his future profession at an early age by his father, the highly esteemed lithographer and artistic designer of botanical works, Walter Müller . Even as a child, he learned to observe nature closely and to represent what he was observing under his guidance. His first place of training was the art school in Weimar . However, he soon moved to Munich, where the painter Franz von Stuck and the etcher Peter Halm were his teachers.

After completing his studies in 1913, he worked as a graphic designer in a large printing company in Lübeck and then in his father's lithographic establishment in Gera until he was drafted as a soldier in 1915. His drawings of the theaters of war in France and Romania were printed in the Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung .

After the war, as a graphic artist at the Hansa workshops in Hamburg, he was able to demonstrate his artistic ability to develop technically complex structures in such a way that they gained an aesthetic appeal in their artistic statement. A considerable number of large-format etchings of port facilities, ship buildings, city views and idyllic houses in old Hamburg were created at that time. In 1925 he became head of the graphic studio of the Vogel publishing house in Pößneck / Thür.

In addition to his professional activity, he created drawings, etchings and watercolors from his Thuringian homeland and numerous illustrations for books, games and magazines. City views of Gera were made in the 1920s. In 1941 he was drafted again and sent to France as the official reporter. Landscapes and urban idylls from Brittany , Provence and Paris date from this period . After 1945 he moved to Coburg , where he worked as a freelance illustrator . Among other things, murals were created on public buildings, advertising brochures for industrial companies and commercial graphics for wood and porcelain. He remained true to his love of landscape painting until the end of his life. He chose his stage name in honor of his hometown Gera.

From his marriage to Klara Hedwig Wally, b. Seidemann, came out two children.

literature

  • The painter and graphic artist Willy Müller-Gera. Ed. Dr. Klaus Müller, self-published, Coburg 1979.
  • Willy Müller-Gera: artist and herald. A painter sees Franconia. Mainpresse Richterdruck, Würzburg 1991, ISBN 3-925232-08-7 .
  • Nice German home. Vol. 1. [Drawings: Willy Müller-Gera and Wolfgang Lenz], Lingen, Cologne [1965].

Web links

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Helga Schubert: Small pieces of jewelry for the collection. In: neuegera.de. Neues Gera - Verlag Dr. Frank, August 1, 2008, accessed August 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Gera, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Wilhelm Paul (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1981
Place of death Roedental