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Otto Mueller

Otto Mueller, Sechs Mädchenakte am Strand (Six Nudes on the Beach)

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Description

Otto Mueller

1874 - 1930


Sechs Mädchenakte am Strand (Six Nudes on the Beach)

signed with the initials O. M. (lower right); signed Otto Mueller and numbered 1600 M (on the reverse)

distemper on burlap

85.5 by 109.4 cm. 33 3/4 by 43 in.

Executed in 1913.

Provenance

Herbert Kurz, Wolframs-Eschenbach (until 1950)

Stuttgart Kunstkabinett, 10-12 May 1950, lot 1711

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin (acquired by 1954)

Emil Frey, Mannheim (acquired by 1964)

Private Collection, Munich (acquired by 1980 and until 2007)

Hauswedel & Nolte, Hamburg, 1 June 2007, lot 47

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibition

Berlin, Galerie Nierendorf, Otto Mueller zum 90. Geburtstag, 1964, no. 27, illustrated in the catalogue

Kiel, Kunsthalle, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik des 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung eines Kielers, 1974, no. 119 (as dating from 1919-20)

Kaiserlautern, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung F., 1976, no. 3, illustrated on the cover of the catalogue

Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Der böse Expressionismus. Trauma und Tabu, 2017-18, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Buchheim, Buchheim Museum der Phantasie; Chemnitz, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz and Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, Brücke und Blauer Reiter, 2022, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Literature

Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Otto Mueller, Leben und Werk, Feldafing, 1963, no. 67, illustrated

Marlene Decker, Gestaltungselemente im Bildwerk von Otto Mueller, Dortmund, 1993, no. 131, p. 178, illustrated

Tanja Pirsig-Marshall and Mario-Andreas von Lüttichau, Otto Mueller: Werkverzeichnis, Munich, 2003

Tanja Pirsig-Marshall, “Die BRÜCKE als Katalysator für Muellers Schaffen,” Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstammlungen Dresden 32, Dresden, 2007, p. 132, illustrated in colour

Tanja Pirsig-Marshall and Mario-Andreas von Lüttichau, Otto Mueller: Gemälde, Cologne, 2020, no. G1913/09