Born in Dresden to Austrian parents, he was a pupil of Karl von Blaas and of Christian Ruben at the Academy in Vienna. Obliged to support his family after his father's death, he worked eight years as an illustrator for the Vienna Figaro.[1] Continuing his studies subsequently, he visited repeatedly Italy and Egypt, and made his name favorably known through a series of scenes from popular life in Italy and Hungary.[2]
His sisters were the painters Marie Müller and Bertha Müller, both well known in Austria for their portrait paintings. The third sister, Josefine, married the Austrian portrait painter Eduard Swoboda, he was the father of the painter Rudolf Swoboda and the portrait painter Josefine Swoboda.[5]
He travelled to Egypt many times throughout his life, often staying there for six months at a time. In 1879, on his fifth visit, he travelled with his nephew and student, Rudolf Swoboda.[6]
He died, aged 57, in Weidlingau, now part of Vienna and is buried at "The Zentralfriedhof" ("Central Cemetery") in Vienna.
Work
He displayed his coloristic talent to greater advantage in oriental subjects, such as Arabian Money-Changers,Pilgrims to Mecca Resting,Bedouins in Camp,Camel Mart,Young Copt Woman (New Pinakothek, Munich). Other works include The Inundation in Vienna, (1862) Old Little Matron and Last Task of the Day (both in the Vienna Museum); and Soldiers in the Thirty Years' War (Prague Gallery). He most well-known work is the Market in Cairo, (1878) which is currently held in the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna.
^Thornton, L., La Femme dans la Peinture Orientaliste, www.acr-edition.com, 1985, p. 248 (translated from French)
^Constantin von Wurzbach (1880). Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (in German). Vol. Theil. 41. Kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien. pp. 61–63. (Direct link to "p. 61")
^Thornton, L., Les Orientalistes I. Peintres Voyageurs, 1828–1908 Paris, 1983, p. 193
^Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings,Champlin, Perkins, 1885
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