Aleksander Mülber
Aleksander Mülber (29 December 1897, Tallinn – 19 May 1931, Paris) was an Estonian painter and printmaker.

Biography
Aleksander Mülber began studying art in 1912, switching from a school of commerce where he had originally enrolled. He studied under Ants Laikmaa and at the . He participated in an exhibition of young artists in 1915, where his pastels in a National Romantic style were appreciated by the critics. Together with his artist colleagues and friends Oskar Kallis and Välko Tuul, he joined the artists' colong  on the Pakri islands, founded by Balder Tomasberg. He remained part of the group until 1918. At the end of this period his art took on a darker note, probably as a reaction to the death of his two friends Kallis and Tuul. During the Estonian War of Independence he was together with six other artists sent to the front in order to rescue and preserve art and other objects of cultural heritage significance threatened with destruction by the fighting. Following the war, he moved to Paris in 1921 and spent the last years of his life there.

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1897 births
1931 deaths
Estonian painters
Estonian printmakers
Estonian illustrators
Estonian graphic artists
20th-century Estonian painters
20th-century Estonian male artists
Artists from Tallinn
People from the Governorate of Estonia