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Otto Mueller - Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait (c.1921)

Otto Mueller (German, 1874-1930)
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Otto Mueller

Otto Müller was a German painter and printmaker of the Die Brücke expressionist movement.

Mueller was born in Liebau (now Lubawka, Kamienna Góra County), Kreis Landeshut, Silesia. Between 1890 and 1892 he was trained in lithography in Görlitz and Breslau. From 1894 to 1896 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden and continued his study in Munich during 1898. He left Munich's academy after Franz von Stuck classified him as untalented.

His early works are influenced by impressionism, Jugendstil and Symbolism. When he settled to Berlin in 1908, his style became more expressionist. During this time there were meetings with Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Rainer Maria Rilke and Erich Heckel. In 1910, he joined 'Die Brücke', a Dresden-based group of Expressionist artists. He was member of the group until it disbanded in 1913 due to artistic differences. At the same time Mueller also had contact with the artists group 'Der Blaue Reiter'.

During World War I he fought as a German soldier in France and Russia. After the war he became a professor at the academy of arts (Akademie der Bildenden Kunste) in Breslau where he taught until his death on 24 September 1930. Johnny Friedlaender and Isidor Ascheim were among his pupils there.

In 1937 the Nazis seized 357 of his works from German museums, since the pictures were considered to be degenerate art.

Mueller was one of the most lyrical of German expressionist painters. The main topic of Mueller's works is the unity of humans and nature; his paintings emphasize a harmonious simplification of form, colour and contours. He is known especially for his characteristic paintings of nudes and Romani women; his nickname was "Gypsy Mueller" and his mother was perhaps Romani. The medium he preferred for his paintings was distemper on coarse canvas, which produced a mat surface. Altogether his printmaking amounted to 172 prints, nearly all of them lithographs, but including a few woodcuts and etchings.

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Landschaft mit Bäumen im Vordergrund

Landschaft mit Bäumen im Vordergrund (1924)

Otto Mueller (German, 1874-1930)
Mädchenakt Vor Dem Spiegel

Mädchenakt Vor Dem Spiegel (1924)

Otto Mueller (German, 1874-1930)
Zwei Mädchenakte

Zwei Mädchenakte (ca 1923)

Otto Mueller (German, 1874-1930)
Waldsee mit drei badenden und einem sitzenden Mädchen 2

Waldsee mit drei badenden und einem sitzenden Mädchen 2 (1918)

Otto Mueller (German, 1874-1930)
Three Nudes

Three Nudes (1910)

Otto Mueller (German, 1874-1930)
Seated Nude

Seated Nude (c.1926)

Otto Mueller (German, 1874-1930)
Stehende Zigeunerin mit Kind auf dem Arm, from Zigeuner

Stehende Zigeunerin mit Kind auf dem Arm, from Zigeuner (1926-1927)

Otto Mueller (German, 1874-1930)
Zwei weibliche Akte in Landschaft

Zwei weibliche Akte in Landschaft (1925)

Otto Mueller (German, 1874-1930)
Lagernde Zigeunerfamilie mit Ziege

Lagernde Zigeunerfamilie mit Ziege (1926-1927)

Otto Mueller (German, 1874-1930)
Zwei in Dünen sitzende Mädchen

Zwei in Dünen sitzende Mädchen (1921)

Otto Mueller (German, 1874-1930)
Zwei Mädchen – Halbakte

Zwei Mädchen – Halbakte (1920)

Otto Mueller (German, 1874-1930)
Der Mord III

Der Mord III (1919)

Otto Mueller (German, 1874-1930)
Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve (ca. 1913 – 1922)

Otto Mueller (German, 1874-1930)
Liebespaar

Liebespaar (1914 – 1918)

Otto Mueller (German, 1874-1930)
Brustbild Maschka II

Brustbild Maschka II (1916)

Otto Mueller (German, 1874-1930)
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