Otto Mueller
- Introduction
- Otto Müller (16 October 1874 – 24 September 1930) was a German painter and printmaker of the Die Brücke expressionist movement.
- Wikidata
- Q317041
- Introduction
- German painter of Silesian birth. Mueller's mother was rumored to be a gypsy, and this had repercussions in his later work. From 1890 to 1894 he appenticed as a lithographer in Görlitz. From 1896 to 1898, he studied at the Kunstakademie in Dresden. From 1898 to 1908 he returned to Silesia, then relocated to Berlin, where he joined the Neue Sezession. In 1910 he joined the newly formed Die Brücke group. As a member of Die Brücke he was invited to show in the second exhibit of the Blaue Reiter in Munich, 1912. He did not adhere to the formal tenets of Die Brücke, but drew influence from the German expressionists and Gauguin. His style was graphic and his subjects were generally nude figures in idealized landscapes. After serving in the military, he became a professor at the Kunstakademie Breslau in 1919, a post he occupied until his death. After 1919 he painted idealized images of the life of the gypsies, whom he had studied on trips to the Balkans, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. He was among those named as "degenerate artists" in Nazi Germany.
- Nationalities
- German, Silesian
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Lithographer, Painter
- Names
- Otto Mueller, Otto Müller, Otto Muller
- Ulan
- 500125010
Exhibitions
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German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse
Mar 27–Jul 11, 2011
MoMA
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About Face: Selections from the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books
May 21–Jun 5, 2001
MoMA
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Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Print Collecting: An Early Mission for MoMA
Jun 22–Oct 21, 1999
MoMA
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Impressions of Nature
Sep 16, 1995–Jan 2, 1996
MoMA
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Pastimes in Prints
Jul 22–Sep 28, 1993
MoMA
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Otto Mueller has
16 exhibitionsonline.
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Otto Mueller Zwei Badende am Ufer (Two Bathers on the Shore) (c. 1914)
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Various Artists, Walther Klemm, Ernst Barlach, Erich Heckel, Max Liebermann, August Gaul, Willy Jaeckel, Josef Bato, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Heinrich Zille, Oskar Kokoschka, Käthe Kollwitz, Otto Mueller, Max Slevogt, Ottomar Starke, Wilhelm Wagner, Leopold von Kalckreuth, Rudolf Grossmann Der Bildermann, vol. 1, nos. 1-18 April 1916-December 1916
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Otto Mueller Three Figures and Crossed Tree Trunks (Drei Figuren und gekreuzte Stämme) (plate, folio 19) from the periodical Der Bildermann, vol. 1, no. 9 (Aug 1916) 1916
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Otto Mueller One Girl Bathing and the Other Sitting on the Shore (2) [Badendes und am Ufer sitzendes Mädchen (2)] (c. 1919)
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Otto Mueller Five Girls by a Pond in the Woods (1) [Fünf Mädchen am Waldteich (2)] (c. 1919)
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Otto Mueller Landscape with Yellow Nudes c. 1919
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Otto Mueller Two Girls - Half Nudes (Zwei Mädchen - Halbakte) 1920
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Various Artists, Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, René Beeh, Heinrich Campendonk, Karl Caspar, Lovis Corinth, Lyonel Feininger, Conrad Felixmüller, August Gaul, Rudolf Grossmann, George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Paul Klee, Käthe Kollwitz, Alfred Kubin, Max Liebermann, Ludwig Meidner, Otto Mueller, Max Pechstein, Adolf Ferdinand Schinnerer, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Richard Seewald, Max Unold Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time) 1920
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Otto Mueller Bathers (Badende) (plate 20) from the illustrated book Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time) 1920
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Otto Mueller Discovery of Moses (Auffindung des Moses) (c. 1920)
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Otto Mueller Mother and Child 2 (Small Version) (Mutter und Kind 2 [kleine Fassung]) (1920, published 1921)
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Otto Mueller Three Girls in Profile (Drei Mädchen im Profil) for the First Annual Portfolio 1921, no. 2 (Brücke Artists) (Erste Jahresgabe 1921, no. 2 [Die Künstler der Brücke]) (1921)
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Otto Mueller Two Bathers in a Brook (Zwei Badende im Bach) (c. 1922)
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Otto Mueller Half Nude Girl in Profile (in Front of a Picture) (Mädchen-Halbakt im Profil [vor einem Bild]) (1922)
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Otto Mueller Three Girls Before the Mirror (Drei Mädchen vor dem Spiegel) (c. 1922)
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Otto Mueller Two Girls in the Dunes at Sylt (Zwei Mädchen in den Dünen, Sylt) (1920-24)
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Otto Mueller Two Girls in the Dunes at Sylt (Zwei Mädchen in den Dünen, Sylt) (1920-1924)
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Otto Mueller Boy among Leaves (Boy in Reeds) (Knabe zwischen Blattpflanzen [Knabe im Schilf]) (1912, printed c. 1913-1925)
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Otto Mueller Two Gypsy Girls in Living Room (Zwei Zigeunermädchen im Wohnraum) from the portfolio Gypsies (Zigeuner) (1926-27, published 1927)
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