Miracle of the Rose; Apparition of Madonna of Lourdes; Holy Family, Madonna before the Grotto, Lord Bute's Collection; Give us Barabbas; Infant Christ and St. Joseph, Virgin as Child (1882), St. Remigius Church, Bonn. In fresco: Scenes from Life of Mary, Adoration of the Lamb, Remagen.—Art Journal (1865), 133; Müller, 384; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 309; La Ilustracion (1879), i. 211, 228; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 48; Zeitschr. f. b. K., 43.
MÜLLER, KARL (FRIEDRICH JOHANN
VON), born in Stuttgart, Oct. 2,
1813, died in Frankfort, April 27, 1881.
Genre painter, son of the engraver Johann
Friedrich Müller; pupil of Johann Friedrich
Dietrich, then of Munich Academy under
Cornelius, of the Stuttgart Art School, and
in 1833-37 in Paris of Ingres, whom he followed
to Rome, whence he came to Frankfort
in 1848; lived in Paris in 1850-67 and settled
in Frankfort. Works: Choice of Hercules;
Il Saltarello, Roman Carnival; Romeo
and Juliet, Judgment of Paris, Stuttgart
Museum; Diana and Endymion; Leda;
Faust and Helena, Villa Rosenstein near
Stuttgart; Venus in the Bath; Actæon's
Punishment; Romeo's Farewell of Juliet.—Allgem.
d. Biog. xxii. 647; Kaulen, 132;
Kunst-Chronik, xvi. 534; Meyer, Conv.
Lex., xviii. 655; Meyer, Gesch., 541.
MÜLLER, LEOPOLD, born in Dresden
in 1834. Genre and landscape painter, pupil
of Vienna Academy under Karl Blaas and
Christian Ruben; painted at first historical
subjects, and was for eight years illustrator
for the Vienna Figaro. Visited repeatedly
Italy and Egypt, and in 1877 became
professor at Vienna Academy. Medal, 1st
class, Munich, 1883. Works: At the Well;
Botcher; Lute-Player (1874); Resting Caravan;
Evening outside Cairo; Beach near
Palermo; Priests in Convent Yard; Old
Little Matron, Last Task of the Day,
Vienna Museum; Chickens on Old Wall;
Scene in Piazza di S. Marco, Venice; Market
in Arabia (1879); At the Sebil, Fellahs
with their Dromedaries Resting (1884);
Oriental Market Scene, W. H. Vanderbilt,
New York; Five Studies from Life in
Egypt, W. T. Walters, Baltimore.—Kunst-Chronik,
ix. 492, 555, 586; xvii. 108; xviii.
384; xix. 535; Neue Illustr. Zeitg. (1885),
i. 23; Müller, 385; Wurzbach, xix. 394;
Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 309; xii. 260; xx. 196.
MÜLLER, MORITZ, called Fire-Müller,
born in Dresden, May 6, 1807, died in Munich,
Nov. 8, 1865. Genre and history
painter, pupil of Dresden Academy under
Matthäi; went in 1828 to Zittau, where he
painted portraits, and to Munich in 1830,
where he at first executed altarpieces. Subsequently
visited the Bavarian Alps, studied
popular life, and painted truthful genre
scenes, especially night views by torch or
hearth light, whence his surname. Member
of Dresden Academy in 1868. Works: Proposal;
Return of the Bride; Pouting Lover
(1843), National Gallery, Berlin; Scene in
Tyrolese War (1834), Peasant Wedding
(1852), New Pinakothek, Munich; Poor
Woman with Suckling watching Revelry of
Young Men, Provinzial Museum, Hanover;
Mother and Two Children at Supper (1847),
Leipsic Museum; Kirmess; Christmas Eve;
Loving Couple by the Hearth; Old Woman
going to Midnight Mass; Departure of the
Tyrolese under Haspinger; Fighting Scene;
Seizure of Andreas Hofer.—Allgem. d.
Biog., xxii. 653; Dioskuren (1863), 177;
Raczynski, ii. 374; Regnet, ii. 57.
MULLER, MORTEN, born at Holmestrand,
Norway, Feb. 29, 1828. Landscape
painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy, and of
Gude and Tidemand; repeatedly visited the
Norwegian coast, whence he took most of
his subjects; settled at Düsseldorf in 1851,
and returned to it, having lived at Christiania
in 1866-73. Honorary member of
Stockholm Academy, and court painter in
1875. Order of Vasa. Works: Pine Forest;
Norwegian Glacier; View near Christiania
Fjord (1855), Hardanger Fjord, Christiania
Gallery; Winter Landscape, Stockholm
Museum; Woodland in Norway (1859),
Ghent Museum; Pine Forest in Norway
