Hans alexander mueller biography templates

Hans Alexander Mueller was born in Nordhausen, Germany on March 12, 1888 to Julius and Marie Mueller. He studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig and then taught there.

Hans alexander mueller biography templates

The printmaker Lynd Ward was his student in 1927.

Some time in the mid 1930s he emigrated from Germany to the United States and settled in Scarsdale, New York, where he worked as a freelance book illustrator and artist. The December 4, 1939 issue of Life Magazine included a profile of the German American artist Hans Alexander Mueller (1888-1962), who had just published, Woodcuts & Wood Engravings: How I Make Them.

It was somewhat surprising and bold that a major magazine would be interested in highlighting a German born printmaker or a book on printing techniques in 1939, but it helped cement his reputation in the United States.

“There have been many books on woodcuts,” wrote Lynd Ward for the book jacket, “but this one is without equal in its intrinsic quality.