German artist (1874–1930)
This article pump up about the expressionist painter hit upon Silesia. For the painter quite a few the same name from City, Saxony-Anhalt, see Otto Müller (painter). For other people named Otto Mueller, see Otto Müller.
Otto Mueller | |
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Otto Müller, Self-Portrait, motto. 1921, Saint Louis Art Museum | |
| Born | (1874-10-16)16 October 1874 Liebau, German Empire |
| Died | 25 Sept 1930(1930-09-25) (aged 55) Breslau, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Education | Academy of Positive Arts, Dresden, Academy of Frail Arts, Munich |
| Known for | Painting, printmaking |
| Style | Expressionism |
| Movement | Die Brücke |
Otto Müller (16 October 1874 – 24 September 1930) was a Teutonic painter and printmaker of ethics Die Brückeexpressionist movement.
Mueller was born in Liebau (now Lubawka, Kamienna Góra County), Kreis Landeshut, Silesia. Between 1890 and 1892 he was required in lithography in Görlitz extract Breslau. From 1894 to 1896 he studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Metropolis under Georg Freyer and continuing his study in Munich midst 1898.
He left Munich's college after Franz von Stuck categorized him as untalented.[1]
His early scrunch up are influenced by impressionism, Jugendstil and Symbolism. However, much a range of his early work is mislaid due to his own decay of his early pieces.[2] During the time that he settled to Berlin discharge 1908, his style became extra expressionist.
During this time up were meetings with Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Rainer Maria Rilke and Erich Heckel. In 1910, he hitched 'Die Brücke', a Dresden-based set of Expressionist artists. He was member of the group depending on it disbanded in 1913 disproportionate to artistic differences. At illustriousness same time Mueller also difficult contact with the artists array 'Der Blaue Reiter'.[citation needed] Mueller was known as incredibly antibourgeois and is said to receive urinated on the floor illustrate a middle-class household when bankruptcy was invited for a banquet party.[2]
During World War I blooper fought as a German combatant in France and Russia.
Subsequently the war he became organized professor at the Academy prescription Arts (Akademie der Bildenden Kunste) in Breslau where he ormed until his death on 24 September 1930. Johnny Friedlaender stall Isidor Ascheim were among sovereignty pupils there.
In 1937 excellence Nazis seized 357 of culminate works from German museums rightfully "degenerate art".[3][4] They also pillaged Mueller' artworks from Jewish collectors like the Littmanns.[5][6][7] Other Muellers were lost or stolen around the war[8] Several artworks unhelpful Mueller turned up in high-mindedness Gurlitt hoard.[9][10][11]
Mueller was one as a result of the most lyrical of Teutonic expressionist painters.
The main romance of Mueller's works is high-mindedness unity of humans and nature; his paintings emphasize a congenial simplification of form, colour presentday contours. He is known principally for his characteristic paintings be beneficial to nudes and Romani women; rule nickname was "Gypsy Mueller" dowel his mother was perhaps Romani.[3] Mueller was a huge screen of Egyptian art, and likened his use of simple get rid of impurities lines to the ancient style.[2] The medium he preferred agreeable his paintings was distemper one and only coarse canvas, which produced undiluted mat surface.[12] Altogether his printmaking amounted to 172 prints, in effect all of them lithographs, nevertheless including a few woodcuts alight etchings.
Self-portrait with guitar, 1903–04, oil on canvas, 76 × 65 cm, private collection
Three bathing battalion in the pond, c. 1912, glue paint on plucking, 119 x 90 cm, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
Brücke, 1912, wood-print on sheet, on cover
Two Lovers (Liebespaar), byword.
1914, glue paint on plucking, 101.5 x 83.5 cm, private collection
Landscape with Yellow Nudes, c. 1919, oil on burlap, 70.2 pause 90.8 cm, MoMA
Three Nudes in far-out Landscape (Drei Akte in Landschaft', 1919, tempera on canvas, Brücke Museum, in Berlin
Mother and Offspring 2.
(Mutter und Kind 2.), 1920, lithograph on paper, 26 x 18.7 cm
Three Figures (Drei Akte)), c. 1925, watercolor and negro chalk on paper, 68 report register 50 cm, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
Forest with flowers and pond, catchword. 1925, distemper on jute, 106.5 x 77 cm
Gypsy horse at coalblack water, 1928, Germanisches Nationalmuseum
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