Harry Müller (25 September 1930 – 19 April 2020) was a German sculptor.

Biography

Müller first studied in

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

in 1951, and then was a student of

Waldemar Grzimek Waldemar Grzimek (December 5, 1918 – May 26, 1984) was a German sculptor. Grzimek was born in Rastenburg, East Prussia (now Kętrzyn, Warmia-Masuria) to a Silesian family, which moved to Berlin in 1925 when Grzimek's father Günther Grzimek ...

at the

Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, also known as Berlin-Weissensee Art Academy, School of Art and Design Berlin-Weissensee (german: Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee) is a non-profit, public art school in Berlin-Weißensee, Berlin, Germany ...

from 1953 to 1960. He developed his own abstract and geometric style, inspired by

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. After his studies, Müller returned to Leipzig and produced abstract sculptures inspired by

Jean Arp Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp (16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966), better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter, and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist. Early life Arp was born in Straßburg (now Stras ...

and

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. He did not exhibit his works, but participated in architectural projects across the city of Leipzig in the 1960s and 1970s. He notably sculpted the aluminum facade of the Blechbüchse and sculptures of the Sachsenplatz fountain.

References

1930 births 2020 deaths German sculptors Artists from Leipzig {{Germany-sculptor-stub