Künstler - - Stift Admont
Künstler - - Stift Admont
Künstler - - Stift Admont
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Heinrich Anton Müller<br />
*Versailles 1869–1930, Münsingen Clinic, Switzerland<br />
Müller lived with his constantly growing family in Corsier beginning in 1898 and<br />
earned his living as a winery labourer – a modest profession which allowed him<br />
enough space for creativity.<br />
In a house he built himself, he set up his own workshop, using the hydropower<br />
of a stream following nearby. He built a gyroscope and a mechanical file; he<br />
patented a machine to cut grapevines in 1903. Other people exploited his<br />
invention. After this, Müller wandered aimlessly through the vineyards. He was<br />
admitted to the Munsingen Clinic in 1906, where he remained until his death –<br />
without being diagnosed.<br />
While in the clinic, Müller pursued his own, sometimes desperate projects. In<br />
1912, he hid himself away in a cave, he had before dug himself, and on a selfmade<br />
perch in 1913. A manner of helmet that he was saving food scraps in was<br />
taken away from him. Beginning in 1914, he constructed wheels from rags, wire<br />
and branches with the help of his excretions and secretions, and from these<br />
machines, which he destroyed again and again, in rage over his internment.<br />
He began to write and draw in 1919, wondrous creatures with mechanical<br />
innards, grimaces as well as tender children’s pictures, like fairytales – as well as<br />
vines.<br />
He gave up in 1925 and spent most of his time lying in the garden behind a<br />
shrub, or at the window, peering through a telescope...<br />
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