In his painting, graphic art and sculpture, Gerhard Kurt Müller placed the human figure at the center of his artistic interest. Formal references to classical modernism - especially Cubism - can be discovered. These borrowings from Cubism took on a life of their own in Müller's work, but become visible when juxtaposed with works of Classical Modernism.
Gerhard Kurt Müller (b. 1926 Leipzig, d. 2019 ibid.) studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, where he worked as a professor and rector in the 1960s before devoting himself entirely to art as a freelancer. He was one of the most important artistic personalities of the "Leipzig School".
Gerhard Kurt Müller, A VIS, 2004, oil on plywood © Gerhard-Kurt-Müller-Stiftung, Photo: Ludwig Rauch
His highly symbolic personnage reminded us of the threat to humanity's existence. Using bright colors, the maestro built compositions full to the brim in constricted pictorial spaces, allowing the figures to live through existential experiences on narrow pictorial stages, emphasizing their plasticity and cubic volumes. In his later works in particular, pointed, crystalline forms clumped together on the canvases to form dense constructions.
July 20 to October 26, 2025
