Bertil H.W. Schmüll is a Dutch

Netherlands

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 engraver, known professionally by his first name Bertil, who has been compared in a modern sense in form and style to Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since...

. He works with the techniques of engraving

Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design on to a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing...

 and drypoint

Drypoint

Drypoint is a printmaking technique of the intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate with a hard-pointed "needle" of sharp metal or diamond point. Traditionally the plate was copper, but now acetate, zinc, or plexiglas are also commonly used...

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He was born at Naarden in the Netherlands. He trained from 1962-1966 at the School of Graphic Arts (in Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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, then the Rijksacademie voor beeldende kunsten (National Academy of Visual Arts) (1968).

Schmüll's early commercial work has included the engraving of postage stamps and heraldic

Heraldry

Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of creating, granting, and blazoning arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms. Heraldry comes from Anglo-Norman herald, from the Germanic compound harja-waldaz, "army commander"...

 emblems. In 1973 he established his own art workshop and has since worked as an independent artist, latterly in collaboration with Karl Boegli, Master Engraver.

Bertil is widely exhibited in Europe

Europe

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Publications

• Bertil: Gravures au burin / Kupferstiche / Copper engravings 1972-1997 (French/German/English), Editions Gilles Attinger, Hauterive, 1997; ISBN 2-88256-092-3 at the instigation of Karl Boegli, Master Engraver (http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.editions-attinger.ch/collection.php%3Fcoll%3D1004&prev=/search%3Fq%3DBertil:%2BGravures%2Bau%2Bburin%2B1972-1997%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG translated)

External links

• Bertil Schmüll web page (Dutch) (see illustrations)
• Report of exhibition in 2001 (translated)