Valéry Ansel Müller was born in Germany in 1973 into a family of artists. His mother and grandmother are sculptors and his great-uncle was a stage designer at the Staatstheater Berlin. Thanks to his father's academic work, he received an open-minded education and speaks four languages fluently. In 2000, he graduated in painting at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Hamburg. After working in Turin and London for several years, he settled in the south of France.
