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FRIEDRICH MULLER (1749-1825)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 961 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRIEDRICH See also:MULLER (1749-1825)  , See also:German poet, dramatist and painter, usually ,known as Maler (i.e. painter) See also:Muller, was See also:born at See also:Kreuznach on the 13th of See also:January 1749 . He studied See also:painting at See also:Zweibrucken, and in 1774--1775 settled in See also:Mannheim, where in 1777 he was appointed See also:court painter . In 1778 he was enabled by a public subscription to visit See also:Italy, which remained his See also:home for the See also:rest of his See also:life . In 178o he became a See also:Roman See also:Catholic . He was unfavourably influenced by the study of See also:Italian See also:models, and gradually gave up painting and devoted himself to the study of the See also:history of See also:art; his services as See also:cicerone were especially in demand among German visitors to See also:Rome . Before he See also:left Mannheim he had tried his See also:hand at literature, under the See also:influence of the See also:Sturm and Drang See also:movement . A lyric See also:drama, See also:Niobe (1778), attracted little See also:attention; but Fausts Leben dramatisiert (1778) appealed to the turbulent spirit of the See also:time, and Gala and Genoveva (begun in 1776, but not published till 1811) was an excellent See also:imitation of See also:Goethe's Gotz von See also:Berlichingen . He struck out a more See also:independent path in his idylls, notably See also:Die Schafschur . (1775) and Das Nusskernen (18i1), in which, emancipating himself from the artificiality of See also:Gessner, he reproduced scenes—not without a See also:touch of See also:satire—from the German See also:peasant-life of his See also:day . He died at Rome on the 23rd of See also:April 1825 . Maley Miiller's Werke appeared in 3 Vols . (x811—1825); in 1868 H .

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Hettner published two volumes of Dichtungen von Maler Muller, which contain most of his writings . Gedichte von Maler See also:Friedrich Muller; eine Nachlese zu dessen Werken appeared in 1873, and his Fausts Leben was reprinted by B . Seuffert in 1881 . See A . Sauer, Sturmer and Dranger," vol. iii . (Kurschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur, vol . 8i, 1883); and B . Seuffert, Maley Muller (1877) .

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