Jan Müller
1922–1958

Introduction

Jan Müller (December 27, 1922 – January 29, 1958) was a New York-based figurative expressionist artist of the 1950s. According to art critic Carter Ratcliff, "His paintings usually erect a visual architecture sturdy enough to support an array of standing, riding, levitating figures. Gravity is absent, banished by an indifference to ordinary experience." According to the poet John Ashbery, Müller "brings a medieval sensibility to neo-Expressionist paintings."

Wikidata identifier

Q6149574

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Country of birth

Germany

Roles

Artist, painter, pastelist

ULAN identifier

500001212

Names

Jan Müller, Jan Muller

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