Konrad Alexander Müller-Kurzwelly (1855 - 1914)

Konrad Alexander Müller-Kurzwelly

Konrad Alexander Müller-Kurzwelly was a German painter. He became known as an influential painter of naturalism and German impressionism. He studied at the Berlin Academy of Arts under Hans Fredrik Gude, who led a master class in landscape painting.

Konrad Müller-Kurzwelly began with a realistic landscape, following the Barbizon school, and was strongly oriented towards the reproduction of atmospheric moods. He often created Impressionist plein air sketches, which can be seen as works in their own right. It was important for him to reproduce sensually tangible impressions of nature in different seasons and create a pole of calm in his paintings, in contrast to the bustle of the ever-expanding metropolitan Berlin of the time.

Since 1883 Müller-Kurzwelli has been a member of the Berlin Artists' Association.