Karl Müller (painter)

Like his older brothers Andreas and Constantin, he attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy after training with his father, where he was enrolled from 1835.

After initial lessons with Karl Ferdinand Sohn, he was instructed there from 1836 by Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow.

In 1839 he undertook a trip to Italy with Franz Ittenbach, accompanied by Schadow, to study fresco painting of the Quattrocento.

[2] In 1857, Müller became professor of history painting at the Düsseldorf Academy and a member of the supervisory board of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen [de].

From this time on, Müller prepared for the painting of the pilgrimage church Notre-Dame de la Garde in Marseille, a work that was planned for a painting period of ten years, but was not carried out due to financing problems and the Franco-Prussian War.