Albin Müller - Eduard Hueck - Teemaschine 1903 A3182

Albin Müller "Tea Machine" kettle on stand with burner, c. 1903, manufactured by Eduard Hueck, German. Basically an elegant art nouveau samovar for one.

Measures 13" high x 8 1/2" x 7".

Albin Müller was trained as a carpenter in his father’s workshop; he then worked in various places, first as a furniture maker, then as a draftsman in large companies. At the same time, he attended the Kunst­gewerbe­schulen (schools of arts and crafts) in Mainz and Dresden to become an interior designer. Afterwards, Müller was appointed as teacher to the Kunst­gewerbe- und Hand­werker­schule in Magdeburg. In 1906, Müller was appointed to the artists' colony in Darmstadt. Together with Joseph Maria Olbrich, he was responsible for organising the Hessian State Exhibition of Fine and Applied Arts of 1908 on the Mathildenhöhe. Here, only a few years later he was able to build his own house in a prominent location. At the last exhibition of 1914 he was artistic director. Even after the First World War, Albin­müller, as he called himself as an artist, worked as an architect, dealing intensively with designs for wooden houses.

The firm of Eduard Hueck ( founder Wilhelm Hueck) existed already in 1813 as a button factory, later on his son Eduard Hueck and an uncle (same name) gave the Lüdenscheider factory a reputation of avant-garde art. From 1901 until 1906 they worked with the designers of the Art Colony Darmstadt: Joseph Maria Olbrich ,Peter Behrens and Albin Müller.