Career
He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He received his first training from 1883-1886 at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts, then at the Academy of Karlsruhe under de:Gustav Schönleber (1851–1917) and finally at the Berlin Academy in the studio of Hans Gude (1825–1903). Another of Gude"s student during this period was de:Georg Müller vom Siel (1865–1939).
Müller-Kaempff was a successful landscape artist.
He produced watercolours, pastels and drawings as well as furniture designs and a multitude of postcards. Prince Eitel Friedrich, the second son of Emperor Wilhelm II, acquired several of Müller-Kaempff"s pieces for the imperial court in 1908.
Müller-Kaempff stayed in touch with his former fellow-student, Georg Müller vom Siel, and visited him at Dötlingen in June 1908. Müller-Kaempff was so inspired by the isolated hamlet that he moved there, built himself a house in 1892, and started the painting school of Saint Lucas in 1894.
Fellow artists followed his lead, and soon the artists" colony was home to de:Anna Gerresheim (1852–1921), de:Elisabeth von Eicken (1862–1940), Friedrich Wachenhusen (1859–1925), de:Fritz Grebe (1850–1924), de:Heinrich Schlotermann (1859–1922), de:Theobald Schorn (1866–1913) and de:Hugo Richter-Lefensdorf (1854–1904).
