Eduard Müller (sculptor)
Eduard Müller was a German sculptor.Biography
His first occupation was that of a cook in the ducal kitchen at Coburg, and he practiced his trade subsequently in Munich and Paris, and thence went to Antwerp, where, on the advice of the sculptor Joseph Geefs, he proceeded to study at the Academy in 1850. Two years afterwards he continued his studies in Brussels, 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”
- “Faith, Love, and Hope”
- “Satyr with the Mask”
- “Waking Maiden”
- “The Faun's Secret”
- “Bacchantin, die Amor die Flügel zu beschneiden droht”
- “The Neapolitan Fisherman and his Son”
- Römerin mit dem Moccolilicht
- “The Terrified Nymph”
- “Eve with Her Children”.
His masterpiece is the group in heroic size, “Prometheus Bound and the Oceanids”, National Gallery, Berlin, chiseled out of a single block of marble.
