!!!Müller, Leopold Carl

b. Dresden (Germany), Dec. 9, 1834, 
d. Weidlingau near Vienna, Aug. 4, 1892, genre and landscape painter, 
called "Orient-painter" and "Aegypten-Mueller", son of a lithographer 
in Vienna, studied under C. von  Blaas at the Vienna Academy. Study 
trips to Hungary and Italy, and most frequently, to Egypt (between 
1873 and 1886). In 1875 joined by H.  Makart, F. von Lenbach and 
C. R. Huber. Professor at the Vienna Academy from 1878; 1886 last 
trip to Egypt, most prominent representative of Austrian oriental 
genre painting.

!Literature
A. F. Seligmann (ed.), C. L. M., 1922; 
Aegyptomanie, exhibition catalogue, Kuenstlerhaus Wien 1994; H. Zemen 
(ed.), L. C. M. 1834-1892. Briefe und Dokumente, 1996; H. Zemen, 
L. C. M. im Kuenstlerhaus. Die Orientbilder, 1998; OeBL.



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