Herman Carl Mueller noted ceramicist, was the founder of the Mueller Mosaic Company of Trenton.

Museums holding his work include the New Jersey State Museum

New Jersey State Museum

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, Newark Museum

Newark Museum

The Newark Museum is the largest museum in New Jersey, USA. It holds fine collections of American art, decorative arts, contemporary art, and arts of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the ancient world...

, Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum

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, Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

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, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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 where his work is on view in gallery 774.

The Westward Journey

The Westward Journey

The Westward Journey, also listed as Indians, Reaper, Blacksmith, Pioneer Family, is a set of outdoor sculptures made by Herman Carl Mueller in 1886–1887, located above the south portico of the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis, the capital of the U.S...

, one of Muellers earlier works, is a collection of limestone sculptures that form part of the Indiana Statehouse.

Mueller's tile work can also be found at Columbia High School (New Jersey)

Columbia High School (New Jersey)

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 in Maplewood, New Jersey

Maplewood, New Jersey

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, Hepburn Hall at New Jersey City University

New Jersey City University

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, New Jersey State House

New Jersey State House

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, Trenton and Mercer County War Memorial-Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Building

Trenton and Mercer County War Memorial-Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Building

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Mueller received the John Scott Award

John Scott Award

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from the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia for "Process of and apparatus for manufacturing mosaics".

Biography

Herman Carl Mueller was born in 1854 to Elias and Doretta Mueller, in Rodach Grmany, near Saxe-Coburg. After attending the Nuremberg School of Industrial Arts, he studied sculpture at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. In 1878, Muller moved to Cincinnati Ohio where he worked as a sculptor. After a few short business venture, Mueller was commissioned to create nine figures for the Indiana Statehouse. While in the employ of American Encaustic Tile Company, Mueller met Karl Langenbeck with whom he founded the Mosaic Tile Company.