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Jan Müller (December 27, 1922 – January 29, 1958) was a New York Figurative Expressionist of the 1950s. According to art critic, Carter Ratcliff,〔Paul Schimmel and Judith E Stein, (''Carter Ratcliff assay, Selfhood Paints a Self-Portrait'' ) (Newport Beach, Calif. : Newport Harbor Art Museum : New York : Rizzoli, 1988.) ISBN 0-8478-0942-0, ISBN 978-0-8478-0942-4 0917493125 9780917493126〕 "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,〔John Ashbery, “Jan Muller,” ''Art News'' 56, no. 2 (January 1958), pp.16-17.〕 Müller "brings a medieval sensibility to neo-Expressionist paintings." ==Biography== Jan Müller was born on December 27, 1922, in Hamburg, Germany. In 1933 his family fled the Nazis to Prague, and later to Bex-les-Bains, Switzerland;〔Vivian Endicott Barnett; Thomas M. Messer; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, (‘’ Handbook, the Guggenheim Museum collection, 1900-1980; Jan Müller, 1922-1958’’ ) (New York : The Museum, 1980.) ISBN 0-89207-021-8, ISBN 978-0-89207-021-3 pp.464-465,〕 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 York. Jan Müller began to study art in 1945. * The Art Students League of New York, New York City, NY for six month; * Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts for five years; He became a US citizen in 1957. Jan Müller died on January 29, 1958, at the age of thirty-six, in New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jan Müller (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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