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Otto Mueller

1874
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1930

The German painter, lithographer and important representative of German Expressionism Otto Mueller was born in Liebau, in what was then Prussian Silesia, in 1874. After completing an apprenticeship as a lithographer, Mueller studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Franz von Stuck, which he discontinued in order to continue his self-taught training in painting. Impressionism, Art Nouveau and Symbolism as well as works by Hans von Marées, Arnold Böcklin and Wilhelm Lehmbruck exerted a particular influence on Mueller.

In 1910, Mueller is a founding member of the "Neue Secession" with other artists in Berlin and exhibits in the show "Zurückgewiesene der Secession Berlin 1910". From 1910 to 1913, Mueller was a member of the expressionist artists' association "Brücke". In this period, his work is characterized by simple, two-dimensional forms and natural, earthy tones combined with expressive contours. He continued to work with a preference for distemper, which he had been using since 1908 for his striking, slender figures of girls, and worked it into rough surfaces on burlap. In contrast to Kirchner, Heckel and Pechstein, Mueller's motifs show harmonious, lyrical and decorative tendencies. A central theme of his work is man in nature and nude in front of a landscape.

After his involvement in the First World War, Mueller held a professorship at the State Academy of Arts and Crafts in Wroclaw from 1919 until his death and was active in the circle of the "Wroclaw Artists' Bohemia". Mueller died in 1930 in Preslau, Poland.

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Otto Mueller girl on the canapé 1921

Otto Mueller

Girl on the canapé

1921-22
21000
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Otto Mueller self-portrait with model and mask 1921-22

Otto Mueller

Self portrait with model and mask

1921-22
25000
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Otto Mueller self-portrait to the right 2 1921-22

Otto Mueller

Self portrait to the right (2)

1921-22
22000
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Otto Mueller Five girls at the forest pond 2

Otto Mueller

Five girls at the forest pond (2)

1919
20000
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Otto Mueller mother and child

Otto Mueller

Mother and child

1920
16000
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Otto Mueller Two figures at the forest stream 2

Otto Mueller

Two figures at the forest stream 2

1921-22
24000
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