{{Short description|Danish photographer (1837–1884)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Bertel Christian Budtz Müller | image = Bertel Budtz Müller.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1837|12|26}} | birth_place = [[Mariager]], [[Denmark]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1884|12|30|1837|12|26}} | death_place = [[Copenhagen]], Denmark | resting_place = | spouse = | citizenship = | alma_mater = | known_for = | occupation = Photographer | awards = | signature = | footnotes = }}

'''Bertel Christian Budtz Müller''' (26 December 1837 – 30 December 1884)<ref name="Repertorium over Legater og milde Stiftelser i Danmark, med Faeroerne, Island, Gronland og de Vestindiske Oer: Stiftede for Udgangen af Aaret 1894 ... 1899 p. 122">{{cite book |title=Repertorium over Legater og milde Stiftelser i Danmark, med Faeroerne, Island, Gronland og de Vestindiske Oer: Stiftede for Udgangen af Aaret 1894 ... |publisher=G.E.C. Gad |year=1899 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ICkUAAAAIAAJ |language=da |access-date=30 May 2019 |page=122}}</ref> was a pioneering [[Denmark|Danish]] photographer. He operated the photographic studio '''Budtz Müller & Co.''' at [[Bredgade]] 21 in [[Copenhagen]] and was appointed as court photographer in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

== Early life and education == Budtz Müller was born in [[Mariager]], the son of teacher Rasmus Müller (1787–1854) and Arnolde Cathrine Grundtvig (1803–1888).<ref name="von Lengnick 1844 p. 1-PA18">{{cite book |last=von Lengnick |first=J.C.L. |title=Genealogier over adelige og borgerlige familier |publisher=Scharling |year=1844 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kAVaAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA18 |language=da |access-date=30 May 2019 |page=1-PA18}}</ref> He apprenticed as a pharmacist in [[Aalborg]] and then moved to [[Copenhagen]] where he graduated as ''[[Pharmacist|candidatus pharmaciae]]'' in 1858. He worked for a year in [[Randers]], and was then employed by [[Alfred Benzon (1823–1884)|Alfred Benzon]], founder of [[Alfred Benzon A/S]], at the [[Svane Apotek (Copenhagen)|Swan Pharmacy]] in [[Copenhagen]] in 1859.<ref name="DBL">{{cite web |url=http://denstoredanske.dk/Dansk_Biografisk_Leksikon/Kunst_og_kultur/Fotografi/Fotograf/Budtz_Müller |title=Budtz Müller |language=Danish |publisher=[[Dansk Biografisk Leksikon]] |accessdate=27 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704021052/http://denstoredanske.dk/Dansk_Biografisk_Leksikon/Kunst_og_kultur/Fotografi/Fotograf/Budtz_M%C3%BCller |archive-date=4 July 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Career == [[File:Budtz Müller (Bredgade 21).jpg|thumb|160px|Budtz Müller at [[Bredgade]] 21 in Copenhagen]] Müller and Benzon opened a shop with photography equipment at [[Bredgade]] 21 in 1862.<ref name="Kraks legat 1915 p. 40">{{cite book |author=Kraks legat |title=Danmarks aeldste forretninger |publisher=Krak. |year=1915 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p686AQAAMAAJ |language=da |access-date=30 May 2019 |page=40 |quote=Cand. pharm. B. C. Budtz Müller (f. 1837 i Mariager, d. 1884) grundlagde den 25. Nov. 1862 i Bredgade 21 en Virksomhed omfattende Handel med ...}}</ref> It was converted into a photographic institute with student programmes in 1863.<ref name="Grandjean Fabritius 1949 p. 197">{{cite book |last=Grandjean |first=L.E. |last2=Fabritius |first2=A. |title=Den lille portrætkunst i Danmark siden 1750 |publisher=[[Gyldendal]] |year=1949 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XgxKAAAAMAAJ |language=da |access-date=30 May 2019 |page=197}}</ref> Benzon left the company in 1866. Müller was instead joined by the art historian [[Philip Weilbach]] until 1871, and from then on owned Budtz Müller & Co. alone.<ref name="HoP">{{cite web |url=https://www.fotohistorie.com/muumlller-budtz-kbh.html |title=Bertel Budtz Müller, København, 1862–1884. Derefter videreført af efterkommere. |language=Danish |website=fotohistorie.com |accessdate=27 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201013212/https://www.fotohistorie.com/muumlller-budtz-kbh.html |archive-date=1 February 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Bredgade 21 - Budtz Müller.jpg|thumb|left|Budtz Müller at [[Bredgade]] 21 on a drawing by [[Knud Gamborg]] ]] The firm offered a wide selection of high quality [[Stereoscope|stereoscopies]] and photographs in large and small formats from Copenhagen. Other images were of prominent cultural figures such as [[Grundtvig]], [[Hans Christian Andersen]], actors in costumes, works by [[Bertel Thorvaldsen]] and 33 stereoscopies from [[Greenland]] recorded in 1866. Other series included Danish monuments (1865-) with text by Weilbach, [[Knippelsbro]] (1869), paintings in the Royal Danish Painting Collection at [[Christiansborg Palace]] (1869), drawings by Danish and foreign artists (1872), paintings by Danish, Norwegian and Swedish artists (1872),<ref name="Nordisk boghandlertidende 1872 p. 390">{{cite book |title=Nordisk boghandlertidende |series=Nordisk boghandlertidende |issue=v. 6 |year=1872 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E0daAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA390 |language=da |access-date=30 May 2019 |page=390}}</ref> drawings and paintings by [[Holger Roed]] (1874),<ref name="Nordisk boghandlertidende 1875 p. 164">{{cite book |title=Nordisk boghandlertidende |series=Nordisk boghandlertidende |issue=v. 9 |year=1875 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pddoAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA164 |language=da |access-date=30 May 2019 |page=164}}</ref> weapons in the [[Christian IV's Arsenal|Royal Danish Arsenal]] (1877), and [[Christiansborg Palace]] (1884). A folder with 35 images by [[Haldor Topsøe (1842–1935)|Haldor Topsøe]] from ''Fylla'''s expedition to Greenland was also published in 1877.<ref name="HoP" />

Budtz Müller collaborated with [[Jean Christian Ferslew]] in introducing [[photolithography]] to the Danish market and created the first photolithographic maps for the Danish [[General Staff (Denmark)|General Staff]],<ref name="Grandjean Fabritius 1949 p. 197" /> as well as a number of reproductions of manuscripts for the [[Arnamagnæan Institute]]. Müller and Ferslew published {{ill|Gotfred af Ghemen|da|lt=Gotfred af Ghemen's}} print from 1495 of ''{{ill|Den danske Rimkrønike|da}}'' in 1873.<ref name="Delbanco 1873 p. 349">{{cite book |last=Delbanco |first=O.H. |title=Nordisk Boghandlertidende. Nordische Buchhändlerzeitung red. von O. H. Delbanco |publisher=O. H. Delbanco |year=1873 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3m1yOWWEtIYC&pg=PA349 |language=da |access-date=30 May 2019 |page=349}}</ref><ref name="Alenius Friis-Jensen 1991 p. 67">{{cite book |last=Alenius |first=M. |last2=Friis-Jensen |first2=K. |title=Latin og nationalsprog i Norden efter reformationen: Konference 1.-5. august 1987, Biskops-Arnö |publisher=Museum Tusculanums forlag |series=Renæssance studier |year=1991 |isbn=978-87-7289-146-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jPKAsms6jvIC&pg=PA67 |language=da |access-date=30 May 2019 |page=67}}</ref>

Budtz Müller was in 1869 appointed as Swedish and Norwegian court photographer and in 1870 also as Danish court photographer. He wrote a number of articles about the history of photography in ''Den fotografiske Forenings Tidende'' in 1865.<ref name="DBL" />

Müller's photographic studio in Bredgade was continued for a few years after his death by Ludvig Johan Offenberg (1863–1904) under the name Budtz Müller.

== Personal life == Müller married Maren Christine Petersen (1840–1878), a foster daughter of dyer Hans Nikolaj Edinger Grundtvig (1807–1887) and Anna Marie Petersen (1804–1865), on 4 December 1863 in the [[Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen|Church of Our Lady]] in Copenhagen.<ref name="DBL" />

== Selected publications == * {{cite book |last=Thorvaldsen |first=Bertel |last2=Müller |first2=Budtz |title=Thorvaldsens Arbeider efter Originalværkerne i Thorvaldsens Museum og Frue Kirke i fotografiske Fremstillinger udførte af Budtz Müller & Co. med dansk og fransk Text. (Les œuvres de Thorvaldsen d'aprè les originaux du Musée Thorvaldsen et de l'Eglise de Notre Dame) |publisher=Budtz Müller |year=1871 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=esr9vgEACAAJ |language=fr}} * {{cite book |last=Ghemen |first=G. |title=Den Danske Rimkrønike, trykt ved Gotfred af Ghemen: Kjøbenhavn 1495. Udgivet i fotolithografisk Faksimile af Budtz Müller & Co. og C. Ferslew & Co. i Kjøbenhavn 1873 |publisher=Budtz Müller |year=1873 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EotcAAAAcAAJ |language=da}}

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== External links == {{Commons}} * [http://www.kb.dk/editions/any/2009/jul/editions/da/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&locale=da&search_field=all_fields&q=Budtz+M%C3%BCller&notBefore=&notAfter= Budtz Müller] at the National Danish Library's image database * [https://kbhbilleder.dk/kbh-museum/130868 Source]

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