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Carl Wilhelm Müller
The Dresden Landscape Born in Dresden in 1839, Carl Wilhelm Müller entered a world where the natural landscape was becoming a profound language for the human spirit. His formal training began at the Dresden Academy of Art between 1854 and 1858, a period that laid the foundation for his lifelong devotion to the terrain. He soon found himself under the guidance of Ludwig Richter, studying in his landscape class until 1864. This mentorship
was more than a mere academic instruction; it was an immersion into a specific way of seeing the world. Alongside classmates like Albert Venus, Müller traveled through the rugged beauty of the Ore Mountains, the Harz Mountains, and the Bohemian countryside, learning to translate the textures of the earth onto canvas. His perspective expanded beyond the familiar vistas of his youth. Between 1865 and 1866, he traveled to Rome, Olevano,…