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A fascinating original mixed media painting on watercolour paper signed OM Otto Mueller (b.1874 - d.1930). Features female nudes and child in reeds consistent with Mueller's colour palette and style. This painting is from a proprietary sketch book. Initialed O.M. bottom left.
MM: 13cm x 19cm
An important representative of German Expressionism, the painter and graphic artist Otto Mueller was a late member of the Die Brucke group of expressionist painters, joining in Berlin, in 1910. Influenced by the curvilinear forms of Art Nouveau, as well as by the Expressionist sculpture of Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919), Mueller's expressionism was more lyrical and less anguished than other Brucke painters, and his compositions were typically more balanced with simplified forms and colour schemes. A master of both painting as well as printmaking, Mueller is noted above all for his landscape painting, populated by female nudes, and elongated figures. At the end of World War I he began teaching at the Breslau Academy of Art and continued there until his death in 1930. Like many modern artists, Mueller's paintings were condemned as Degenerate Art by the Nazis. Otto Mueller Sells incredibly well at auction with similar works being offered at Sotheby's recently For $200,000-300,000
This is a highly speculative piece with no provenance other than that owner is deceased. So it's a gamble we will not guarantee it, so no returns but if it's right could be worth 50-100 times the auction value. There is a video of this lot on our tic tok facebook and Instagram page under South Dublin Auction.
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