Ernst Müller-Scheeßel

Ernst Müller-Scheessel (24 April 1863 - 11 December 1936) was a German artist and a co-founder of the "Bremer Kunstlerbund" (".... Artists' Association"). He also taught for some time at the "Kunstgewerbeschule" ("Applied Arts Academy") in Bremen.

Biography Ernst Heinrich Adolf Ferdinand Müller was born at Scheeßel (Rotenburg) in the Kingdom of Hanover, a short distance to the east of Bremen and to the north of Hannover, the seventh of his parents' nine recorded children. Adolf Conrad Müller (1811-), his father, was a businessman who at one stage entered into an ill-starred partnership with his wife's brother, Ernst Müller's uncle, Julius Zahn. While he was growing up the family relocated in connection with his father's work, and the second part of his childhood was spent in the (at that time separate and completely rural) village of Beeke (Obernkirchen), some fifteen minutes to the west of Hannover by train. Returning to Germany in 1896, he spent a year in Munich in order to study with Anton Ažbe. Sources indicate that for Müller-Scheessel the marriage represented an upward move, both within the hierarchy of the flourishing Bremen arts establishment and among Bremen's haute-bourgeoisie more generally.

In 1910 he set up a studio in the Roselius building "Roselius-Haus" along the Böttcherstraße, then as now the artists' quarter of central Bremen. That was where, in 1913, he held his first exhibition.

On 13 October 1928 the Roselius building "Roselius-Haus" re-opened following a major refurbishment planned and overseen by Müller-Scheessel. Since then it has been primarily a museum of North German "Plattdeutsch" culture and folk arts. In 1934 the city senate granted him a full professorship, following which he taught as a professor at the "Kunstgewerbeschule" ("Applied Arts Academy").

On 11 December 1936 Ernst Müller-Scheesser suffered a fatal heart attack.