Even as a student at the Academy of Art in Dresden, Richard Müller began creating a wholly unique cosmos of images in his drawings, etchings, and paintings that is said to have set him apart from the artistic currents of his time throughout his entire life. These surreal compositions and photo-realistic representations, peppered as they are with Old Master motifs and nightmarish juxtapositions, baffled – just as they fascinated – Müller‘s contemporaries all around the world. A lack of understanding of his work and the eventual defamation of Müller‘s name, coupled with his own inability to cope with the upheavals of modernity, later distorted people‘s view of his ingenious technique and the creative power of his oeuvre, however. It is therefore now time to reclaim this unjustly forgotten artist‘s works – with their Old Masterly perfection and symbolically-charged contents – from the cabinets of museums and connoisseurs and to discover them, anew, for the public.