OTTO GRADLER. PROMETHEUS AND THE OCEANIDS BRONZE PROF MULLER.

Prometheus and the Oceanids E. 19 century
Draft after Eduard Müller. Prometheus chained to a natural rocky base, above him the attacking eagle Ethon, who wants to eat his liver, at his feet and next to him two naked female beings. electroforming. rear re. "E. Mueller fec. Rome / Original
National Gallery / Berlin / Prop. by the Micheli brothers / Berlin 1885". H. 76 cm. - In 1868 Müller's main work was created in Rome, which was installed as a monumental marble version in the National Gallery in Berlin in 1879.
Statue stands on a wooden base.

Eduard Müller began an apprenticeship in the ducal court kitchen in 1842, went to Munich and Paris as a cook four years later, stayed in Antwerp for two years and, after having done a lot of modeling in his free time, followed the advice of the sculptor Joseph in 1850 Geefs his urge towards sculpture. He attended the local academy and earned his living by painting portraits. In 1852 he went to Brussels, where he created the marble statue of an awakening boy in 1854 and a Psyche in 1856, which he executed in marble for the Prince of England after he had settled in Rome from 1857.#1 Prometheus lamented by the Oceanids (1872–1879) His main work, the group Prometheus and the Oceanids, was written in Rome from 1868 onwards. The Nationalgalerie Berlin commissioned a monumental marble version and installed it in 1879. Always connected to his home town of Coburg, Eduard Müller gave her a plaster cast that was true to the original, and an existing pavilion was specially converted for its public presentation in 1880. Although he was skeptical about reductions in his sculptures, the sculptor allowed the Berlin foundry Hermann Gladenbeck to produce and sell one around 1885 to 1888. For this purpose, the sculptor Otto Gradler (* 1836, † probably after 1921) created a model based on Müller's original. A copy of this sculpture has been in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum since 2004, as well as in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

After completing a sketch for a counterpart to the Prometheus group (the liberation of Prometheus by Hercules), he completed his artistic activity.

Eduard Müller was a professor and member of the San Luca Academy in Rome, the Berlin Academy and the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. He became an honorary member of the Carrara Academy and, like his twin brother Gustav, an honorary citizen of the city of Coburg in 1880.