page_title: Albert Müller
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Albert Müller / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Sculpture Friends (Hermann Scherer and Albert Müller) by Ernst Kirchner (1924) Deutsch: Die Freunde (Hermann Scherer und Albert Müller) von Ernst Kirchner (1924) in Kunstmuseum Basel
context_page_description: Albert Müller was a Swiss Expressionist painter, glass artist, draftsman, graphic artist and sculptor.
context_section_description: Müller was born in Basel in 1897. In 1917, he graduated as a glass painter from the general business school in Basel.
  In 1919, he received his first exhibition in the Kunsthalle Basel.
  In 1920, he traveled to Italy and worked with Niklaus Stoecklin in San Gimignano.
  In 1923, Müller became acquainted with the expressionist, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and his work.
  An intense artistic friendship arose.
  In 1924, he founded the artist group Rot-Blau together with Hermann Scherer and Paul Camenisch, and later Werner Neuhaus. In the years between 1924 and 1926, he was a frequent guest with Ernst Ludwig Kirchner in Davos Frauenkirch.
  In 1926, Müller died suddenly.
caption: Sculpture The Friends (Hermann Scherer and Albert Müller) by Ernst Kirchner
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