Maler Müller
Friedrich Müller, painter called Müller ( born January 13, 1749 Kreuznach, † April 23, 1825 in Rome ) was a German painter, engraver and poet of the Sturm und Drang.
Life
Müller grew up as the son of a baker and innkeeper on in Kreuznach. After the early death of his father, he broke off his visit to the school and helped in the family business. During this time he made his first drawings and wrote his first poems. He became a pupil Daniel Hiens, the court painter Duke Christian IV of Zweibrücken, and studied from 1769 at the Art Academy in Mannheim, where his interest in the art of antiquity and the Renaissance was awakened. Elector Karl Theodor appointed him his cabinet painter. Since that time, Müller Contact Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Christoph Martin Wieland and Friedrich Schiller. His relationship with his peer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was initially friendly; Goethe praised Muller's drawings and illustrations, and stood with him in frequent correspondence. In addition, both worked on the Faust material; In 1778 appeared a fragment miller as " dramatized Faust's life."
1778 Müller traveled to Rome, where he remained until his death, and most lived in poverty. Images sent Muller to Weimar, Goethe and his friends found no pleasure in what it came with Goethe fracture miller. Because since 1789 the initially failed to payments received from Mannheim, he worked in Rome as a journalist and tour guide. In 1805 he was guide the Bavarian Crown Prince and later King Ludwig I, who granted him the title of a royal Bavarian court painter and exposing him a pension. He also met numerous famous traveler of his time, such as Ludwig Tieck.
In Rome, Müller continued to be active as a poet. In addition to several idylls and the novella "The high saying, or Chares and Fatima " dramas " Golo and Genevieve " and " Adonis" emerged. He also worked his " Faust" in a Versfassung to. 1811 appeared at the suggestion of Tieck 's "Collected Works ".
At the age of 76 years Müller died in Rome at the effects of a stroke.
Literary works
Amendment
- The high saying, or Chares and Fatima
Dramas
- Golo and Genevieve
- Adonis
- Fist