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HANS ALEXANDER MUELLER

 

THE FIRST PART OF DON QUIXOTE 1941
WOOD CUTS AND WOODENGRAVING 1939

 

WOODCUTS OF NEW YORK IMAGES 1938
WOODCUTS OF NEW YORK TEXTS 1938

 

 

Mueller was born in Nordhausen in 1888. He studied in Leipzig and then taught there (Lynd Ward being a student). Before 1939 he emigarted to America where he undertook several ambitious illustrative projects, Kidnapped and Treasure Island, Don Quixote and to a series of novels by Knut Hamsen.

His standard manual of the medium (Wood Cuts and Wood Engraving) has a characteristic quote on the reverse of the jacket. "I love the woodcut as a form of artistic expression because it requires the simplest materials and comparative muscular strength. I love to exploit the full use of my five senses when wood, metal, paper, and color come within my grasp."

 

 

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