Timeline

1874

Born in Liebau, Silesia (now Poland)

1890 - 1894

Apprenticeship with a lithographer in Görlitz

1894 - 1897

Studies at the Academy of Art in Dresden

1898

Studies in Munich

1908

Moved to Berlin with his wife Maschka

1910

After being rejected by the Berlin Secession, he founded the Neue Secession with Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein

1911

Worked with Heckel and Kirchner on the Baltic coast and at the Moritzburg Lakes near Dresden

1913

Final break-up of the Brücke group, Mueller maintains contact and friendship with the other former members

1914 - 1918

Served in the military for one year during World War I and is briefly hospitalized in 1917

1919

Mueller begins teaching at the Breslau Academy and continues there until his death

1920 - 1929

Extensive travels throughout Eastern Europe

1930

Died on September 24th in a sanatorium near Breslau