Juana Muller

Juana Muller (1911 - 1952) is a Sculpteure of origin Chile enne pertaining to the news École of Paris.

Biography

Juana Muller is born on February 12th, 1911 with Santiago from Chile in a family come from Germany. After éudes at the school of the Art schools of Santiago, it becomes professor there, carrying out many voyages in Europe, in Germany, in Italy and Greece. It settles in 1937 in Paris, works in the workshop of Zadkine to the Académie of the Large Thatched cottage and meets Brancusi. Its sculptures evolve/move then in the direction of the not figuration. From 1944 it binds with the sculptors Etienne Martin and François Stahly, the painters Alfred Manessier, Jean Bazaine, Jean Bertholle, Jean Moal with which it Marie, later Eudaldo, come him also from Chile, Etienne Hajdu and Simone Boisecq.

Juana Muller exposes in 1947 with Bertholle, Etienne Martin, Vera Pagava and Stahly with the gallery Jeanne Bucher, in 1950 with the gallery May with Etienne Martin and Stahly. It takes part of 1946 to 1952 in the Salon of May and 1949 to 1952 in the Living room of the Young Sculpture.

Whereas she works with Stahly and Etienne Martin with the project of the decoration of the church of Baccarat, she dies into 1952 before the completion of her realization.

Judgments

its works " are impressed of gravity, even of hieratism, which they can evoke of the cultural objects for companies extremely far away from ours, impossible not to recognize it. A mystery lives their simplified forms, not only the hollows where the shades open out, but also surfaces which the light touches, these somewhat rough, rough surfaces like those of wood are cut with great blows or those of the stones which time scratched by equipping them with one at the same time secret life and attirante."

Joseph-Emile Muller, Museums of Metz and Musée of history and art of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, 1973.

" Brancusi felt, and it me made of it share, that Juana Muller formed part, like him, of the great “Tradition” of Art, where apparent modernity is only one inevitable accident for any work authentique."

François Stahly, Museum of art and history of the town of Meudon, 1984.

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