January Muller

December 27, 1922 (age 35)

Hamburg, Germany

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." In 1933 his family fled the Nazis to Prague, and later to Bex-les-Bains, Switzerland. There he experienced the first of several attacks of rheumatic fever. He visited Paris in 1938 and two years later was apprehended and interned in a camp near Lyon. Shortly after the fall of Paris Müller was released, at which time he moved to Ornaisons, near Narbonne. Following an unsuccessful attempt to escape to the United States from Marseille, he was able to cross the border into Spain in 1941 and proceed via Portugal to New New York January Müller began to study art in 1945. The Art Students League of New York, New York City, New York for six month. Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts for five years. He became a United States citizen in 1957. January Müller died on January 29, 1958, at the age of thirty-six, in New New York

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January Müller was born on December 27, 1922, in Hamburg, Germany.

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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." In 1933 his family fled the Nazis to Prague, and later to Bex-les-Bains, Switzerland. There he experienced the first of several attacks of rheumatic fever.

He visited Paris in 1938 and two years later was apprehended and interned in a camp near Lyon.

Shortly after the fall of Paris Müller was released, at which time he moved to Ornaisons, near Narbonne. Following an unsuccessful attempt to escape to the United States from Marseille, he was able to cross the border into Spain in 1941 and proceed via Portugal to New New York

January Müller began to study art in 1945. The Art Students League of New York, New York City, New York for six month.

Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts for five years.

He became a United States citizen in 1957. January Müller died on January 29, 1958, at the age of thirty-six, in New New York

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