Eduard Müller (sculptor)
Eduard Müller ( born August 9, 1828 in Hildburghausen, † 29 December 1895 in Rome ) was a trained chef, the self-taught formed as a sculptor.
Life
Eduard Müller began in 1842 teaching in the ducal court kitchen, went four years later as a cook to Munich and Paris, is held two years in Antwerp and was followed, after he had previously modeled a lot in his leisure hours in 1850 on the advice of the sculptor Joseph Geefs his urge to sculpture. He attended the local Academy and earned next by portraits of his maintenance. In 1852 he went to Brussels, where he created in 1854 the marble statue of a boy waking and 1856 a psyche that he, after he had settled in 1857 in Rome, executed for the Prince of England in marble.
In Rome since 1868 his main work, the Group "Prometheus and the Oceanids " was born. The National Gallery in Berlin was a monumental marble version in order and put it on 1879. His hometown Coburg always connected, left her Eduard Müller of an original plaster cast to its public presentation in 1880 specifically an existing pavilion was rebuilt. Although skeptical about reductions of his graphic work, the sculptor allowed to 1885-1888 the Berlin foundry Hermann Gladbeck the production and distribution of such. Especially this, created by the sculptor Otto Gradler (* 1836, † probably after 1921 ) a model according to Müller's original. In the Germanic National Museum is since 2004 a copy of this sculpture, as in the Berlin Old National Gallery.
After a sketch to a counterpart of Prometheusgruppe ( the liberation of Prometheus by Hercules ) had been completed, he completed his artistic activity.
Eduard Müller was a professor and member of the Academy of San Luca in Rome, the Berlin Academy and the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. He was made an honorary member of the Academy of Carrara and his twin brother Gustav in 1880 an honorary citizen of the city of Coburg.
Both brothers were buried in Rome in the Protestant cemetery.
Works
- Nymph, cupid kissing (1862, owned by the Queen of England )
- Faith, Love, Hope, for a mausoleum located in Hamburg ( 1869)
- Satyr with the mask (1870 )
- Awakening Girls ( 1872)
- The secret of the Faun (1874 )
- Bacchante, the Amor threatens to curtail the wings (1874 )
- The Neapolitan fisherman and his boy (1875 )
- Roman with the Moccolilicht
- Eva with her children
- The frightened nymph ( counterpart to the Satyr with the mask)