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German-American painter (1922–1958)
Jan Müller
Born December 27, 1922 (1922-12-27 ) Died January 29, 1958 (1958-01-30 ) (aged 35)New York City, U.S.
Occupations 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-five, in New York.
Selected solo exhibitions
1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958: Cooperative Hansa Gallery, New York City, which he founded with
Allan Kaprow and
Richard Stankiewicz
1955, 1956: The Sun Gallery,
Provincetown ,
Massachusetts
1960:
University of Minnesota
1961: Zabriskie Gallery, NYC
1962: Jan Müller: 1922–1958 organized by the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , NYC
1970, 1971, 1972: Noah Goldowsky
1976, 1977: Gruenebaum Gallery, NYC
1980: Rosa Esman Gallery, NYC
Selected group exhibitions
1952: 813 Broadway (Gallery), NYC
1953:
The Art Institute of Chicago
1955: University of Minnesota
1955, 1956: Stable Show, Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture , Stable Gallery, NYC
1957: The New York School, Second Generation, Jewish Museum, NYC; Young America,
Whitney Museum of American Art , NYC
1958:
Carnegie ,
Pittsburgh ,
Pennsylvania ; Festival of Two Worlds ,
Spoleto ,
Perugia , Italy
1958, 1959:
Institute of Contemporary Art ,
Boston , MA
1959: New Images of Man,
Museum of Modern Art , NYC
1960: American Federation of Arts, circ., NYC
2009: Days Lumberyard Studios, Provincetown, MA, 1915-1972 ,
ACME Fine Art , Boston, MA;
Collections
See also
References
^ 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
^ John Ashbery, "Jan Muller," Art News 56, no. 2 (January 1958), pp.16-17.
^ 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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