Mühl, Roger

Biography

Born in Strasbourg on December 20, 1929, Roger Mühl attended the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in his native city. After graduating in 1948, he collaborated with Germain Muller's theater troupe to provide them with sets, then exhibited his work for the first time in Paris in 1960, and subsequently around the world (Geneva, London, Tokyo...). He was awarded the Prestige des Arts in 1960, and from 1970 onwards received numerous commissions, notably for stained-glass windows, frescoes and illustrations (for Albert Camus, for example, in 1978). He enjoyed great success, exhibiting alongside such artists as Bernard Buffet, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque at the "Un siècle de création lithographique en France à L'Atelier Mourlot" exhibition in 1992. Mühl is a complete artist, having worked on many different projects, including gouaches and watercolors, lithographsfrescoes, stained glass and tapestries. He is inspired by landscapes (particularly those of Alsace and Provence), and often depicts gardens, seascapes and still lifes. His work is essentially concerned with figuration and the play of light, giving his landscapes a very special, soft, unreal atmosphere. He died in Mougins on April 4, 2008.