Eduard Müller (9 August 1828 in
Hildburghausen
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Geography
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– 29 December 1895 in
Rome
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) was a German sculptor.
Biography
His first occupation was that of a cook in the ducal kitchen at
Coburg
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, and he practised his trade subsequently in
Munich
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and
Paris
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, and thence went to
Antwerp
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, where, on the advice of the sculptor
Joseph Geefs
Joseph Germain Geefs or Jozef Germain Geefs (23 December 1808 – 9 October 1885) was a Belgian sculptor. Also his six brothers Guillaume Geefs, Aloys Geefs, Jean Geefs, Théodore Geefs, Charles Geefs and Alexandre Geefs were sculptors.
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, he proceeded to study at the Academy in 1850. Two years afterwards he continued his studies in
Brussels
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, and in 1857 settled permanently in Rome. Among his pupils was
Cesare Aureli.
Works
Masterly composition, great truthfulness to life, and a high degree of technical perfection are the chief characteristics of his ideal figures and mythological groups, the best known of which include:
* “Nymph Kissing Cupid” (Nymphe, den Amor küssend, 1862, belonging to the Queen of the United Kingdom)
* “Faith, Love, and Hope” (Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung, 1869, for the Schröder Mausoleum, Hamburg)
* “Satyr with the Mask” (Satyr mit der Maske, 1870)
* “Waking Maiden” (Erwachendes Mädchen, 1872)
* “The Faun's Secret” (Das Geheimnis des Fauns, 1874)
* “Bacchantin, die Amor die Flügel zu beschneiden droht” (Bacchante threatening to cut the wings of Cupid, 1874)
* “The Neapolitan Fisherman and his Son” (Der neapolitanische Fischer und sein Knabe, 1875)
* Römerin mit dem Moccolilicht
* “The Terrified Nymph” (Die erschreckte Nymphe, pendant to Satyr mit der Maske)
* “Eve with Her Children” (Eva mit ihren Kindern, 1880).
His masterpiece is the group in heroic size, “
Prometheus Bound and the Oceanids” (1872–79), National Gallery, Berlin, chiseled out of a single block of marble.
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1828 births
1895 deaths
German sculptors
German male sculptors
Sculptors from Rome
People from Hildburghausen
19th-century German sculptors
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