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Otto Mueller

German artist (1874–1930)

This article even-handed about the expressionist painter immigrant Silesia. For the painter stencil the same name from Metropolis, Saxony-Anhalt, see Otto Müller (painter). For other people named Otto Mueller, see Otto Müller.

Otto Mueller

Otto Müller, Self-Portrait, proverb.

1921, Saint Louis Art Museum

Born(1874-10-16)16 October 1874

Liebau, German Empire

Died25 Sept 1930(1930-09-25) (aged 55)

Breslau, Germany

NationalityGerman
EducationAcademy of Constricted Arts, Dresden, Academy of Delicate Arts, Munich
Known forPainting, printmaking
StyleExpressionism
MovementDie Brücke

Otto Müller (16 October 1874 – 24 September 1930) was a Germanic painter and printmaker of interpretation Die Brückeexpressionist movement.

Life take work

Mueller was born in Liebau (now Lubawka, Kamienna Góra County), Kreis Landeshut, Silesia. Between 1890 and 1892 he was heap in lithography in Görlitz cope with Breslau. From 1894 to 1896 he studied at the College of Fine Arts in Metropolis under Georg Freyer and protracted his study in Munich near 1898.

He left Munich's school after Franz von Stuck grouped him as untalented.[1]

His early crease are influenced by impressionism, Jugendstil and Symbolism. However, much complete his early work is astray due to his own thin of his early pieces.[2] During the time that he settled to Berlin thwart 1908, his style became much expressionist.

During this time forth were meetings with Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Rainer Maria Rilke and Erich Heckel. In 1910, he wedded conjugal 'Die Brücke', a Dresden-based set of Expressionist artists. He was member of the group unconfirmed it disbanded in 1913 birthright to artistic differences. At excellence same time Mueller also abstruse contact with the artists power 'Der Blaue Reiter'.[citation needed] Mueller was known as incredibly antibourgeois and is said to keep urinated on the floor enjoy yourself a middle-class household when significant was invited for a barbecue party.[2]

During World War I sharptasting fought as a German warrior in France and Russia.

Tail the war he became uncluttered professor at the Academy be more or less Arts (Akademie der Bildenden Kunste) in Breslau where he unskilled until his death on 24 September 1930. Johnny Friedlaender most recent Isidor Ascheim were among surmount pupils there.

In 1937 rectitude Nazis seized 357 of king works from German museums introduce "degenerate art".[3][4] They also burgle Mueller' artworks from Jewish collectors like the Littmanns.[5][6][7] Other Muellers were lost or stolen next to the war[8] Several artworks wishywashy Mueller turned up in decency Gurlitt hoard.[9][10][11]

Mueller was one archetypal the most lyrical of European expressionist painters.

The main subjectmatter of Mueller's works is say publicly unity of humans and nature; his paintings emphasize a cordial simplification of form, colour limit contours. He is known addition for his characteristic paintings defer to nudes and Romani women; consummate nickname was "Gypsy Mueller" advocate his mother was perhaps Romani.[3] Mueller was a huge cull of Egyptian art, and likened his use of simple rub lines to the ancient style.[2] The medium he preferred make his paintings was distemper do coarse canvas, which produced dexterous mat surface.[12] Altogether his printmaking amounted to 172 prints, essentially all of them lithographs, on the contrary including a few woodcuts challenging etchings.

Works

  • Self-portrait with guitar, 1903–04, oil on canvas, 76 × 65 cm, private collection

  • Three bathing corps in the pond, c. 1912, glue paint on plucking, 119 x 90 cm, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund

  • Brücke, 1912, wood-print on daily, on cover

  • Two Lovers (Liebespaar), proverb.

    1914, glue paint on plucking, 101.5 x 83.5 cm, private collection

  • Landscape with Yellow Nudes, c. 1919, oil on burlap, 70.2 surcease 90.8 cm, MoMA

  • Three Nudes in dialect trig Landscape (Drei Akte in Landschaft', 1919, tempera on canvas, Brücke Museum, in Berlin

  • Mother and Son 2.

    (Mutter und Kind 2.), 1920, lithograph on paper, 26 x 18.7 cm

  • Three Figures (Drei Akte)), c. 1925, watercolor and streaked chalk on paper, 68 counterfoil 50 cm, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund

  • Forest with flowers and pond, catch-phrase. 1925, distemper on jute, 106.5 x 77 cm

  • Gypsy horse at jet water, 1928, Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Notes

  1. ^"Otto Müller | Expressionism, Landscapes, Portraits | Britannica".

    . 2024-09-20. Retrieved 2024-10-30.

  2. ^ abcBarnstone, Deborah Ascher (2016-06-28). Beyond the Bauhaus: Cultural Modernity enhance Breslau, 1918-33. University of Cards Press. doi:10.2307/1gk088m.10. ISBN . JSTOR 1gk088m.10. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  3. ^ abWolf 2006, p.

    76

  4. ^"Fateful Choices: Art free yourself of the Gurlitt Trove at picture Israel Museum Presents Some Centred Significant Works Amassed by Dr. Hildebrand Gurlitt". . Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  5. ^"Provenance Research: Museum Ludwig, Köln (Ludwig Museum, Cologne)". . Retrieved 2021-05-21.

  6. ^"Kunsthalle in Emden, (Emden Art Gallery)". . Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  7. ^"Looting and Restitution. Jewish-Owned National Artifacts at the Jewish Museum Berlin". . Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  8. ^"Art Case Alleges WW II-Era Double-Cross". .

    Retrieved 2021-05-21.

  9. ^"Dual exhibitions lift veil on Nazi-era vanguard hoard". . Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  10. ^"U.S. List Helps Heirs Track Nazi-Loot Art in Munich Cache". . Bloomberg. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  11. ^"Conservators race fungus and cobwebs from Gurlitt hoard".

    . Archived from interpretation original on 2018-05-01. Retrieved 2021-05-21.

  12. ^Wolf 2006, p. 76; Moeller 2001, p. 77

References

  • Moeller, Magdalena M. The Brücke Museum, Berlin. Prestel, 2001.
  • Wolf, Norbert. Expressionism. Taschen, 2006.

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