Jan Müller (artist)

Jan Müller
Born December 27, 1922
Hamburg, Germany
Died January 29, 1958
New York City
Occupation Abstract expressionist painter; New York Figurative Expressionist painter.

Jan Müller (December 27, 1922 – January 29, 1958) was a New York-based figurative expressionist artist of the 1950s. According to art critic Carter Ratcliff,[1] "His paintings usually erect a visual architecture sturdy enough to support an array of standing, riding, levitating figures. Gravity is absent, banished by an indifference to ordinary experience." According to the poet John Ashbery,[2] Müller "brings a medieval sensibility to neo-Expressionist paintings."

Biography

Jan Müller was born on December 27, 1922, in Hamburg, Germany. In 1933 his family fled the Nazis to Prague, and later to Bex-les-Bains, Switzerland;[3] there he experienced the first of several attacks of rheumatic fever. He visited Paris in 1938 and two years later was apprehended and interned in a camp near Lyon. Shortly after the fall of Paris, Müller was released, at which time he moved to Ornaisons, near Narbonne. Following an unsuccessful attempt to escape to the United States from Marseille, he was able to cross the border into Spain in 1941 and proceed via Portugal to New York.

Jan Müller began to study art in 1945.

He became a US citizen in 1957.

Jan Müller died on January 29, 1958, at the age of thirty-six, in New York.

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Collections

See also

References

  1. ↑ Paul Schimmel and Judith E Stein, Carter Ratcliff assay, Selfhood Paints a Self-Portrait (Newport Beach, Calif. : Newport Harbor Art Museum : New York : Rizzoli, 1988.) ISBN 978-0-8478-0942-4
  2. ↑ John Ashbery, "Jan Muller," Art News 56, no. 2 (January 1958), pp.16-17.
  3. ↑ Vivian Endicott Barnett; Thomas M. Messer; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ‘’ Handbook, the Guggenheim Museum collection, 1900-1980; Jan Müller, 1922-1958’’ (New York : The Museum, 1980.) ISBN 0-89207-021-8, ISBN 978-0-89207-021-3 pp.464-465,
  • Paul Cummings, Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists, (St. Martins Press New York, 1994.) ISBN 0-312-08440-4
  • Martica Sawin, "Jan Müller: 1922-1958," Arts, vol. 33, Feb. 1959, pp41, repr.,44

Books

  • Paul Schimmel and Judith E Stein, The Figurative fifties : New York figurative expressionism, (Newport Beach, Calif. : Newport Harbor Art Museum : New York : Rizzoli, 1988.) ISBN 978-0-8478-0942-4 ISBN 978-0-91749312-6
  • Barbara Rose, American Art Since 1900; a critical history. (New York, F. A. Praeger, 1967.) OCLC: 256107 p. 236, repr., 237
  • Irving Sandler, The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties, (New York, Harper & Row, 1978.) ISBN 0-06-438505-1, ISBN 978-0-06-438505-3 p. 124, fig. 86
  • Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6 pp. 32,38
  • Marika Herskovic, American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism: Style Is Timely Art Is Timeless: An Illustrated Survey With Artists' Statements, Artwork and Biographies. (New York School Press, 2009.) ISBN 978-0-9677994-2-1. p. 172-175
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