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123000929
Otto Mueller
Fünf gelbe Akte am Wasser, (Fünf Mädchen am Strand, Nordsee, Badende Mädchen), 1921.
Lithograph in colors
Estimation: € 20,000 / $ 22,000
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Fünf gelbe Akte am Wasser, (Fünf Mädchen am Strand, Nordsee, Badende Mädchen). 1921.
Lithograph in colors.
Monogrammed. From an edition of 100 unnumbered copies. On faded, slightly hammered wove paper. 33 x 44 cm (12.9 x 17.3 in). Sheet: 41,8 x 52,5 cm (16,4 x 20,6 in).
Published by Kurt Wolff in Hyperion Verlag. [KA].
• One of Otto Mueller's very rare color lithographs.
• Outstanding example of Mueller's quest for a harmonious unity of man and nature.
• Strong graphic style.
• The motif of bathers in the open air is considered one of the main motifs of the “Brücke” artists Otto Mueller, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Hermann Max Pechstein and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Hesse (since 1963: Lempertz).
LITERATURE: Florian Karsch, Otto Mueller. Das graphische Gesamtwerk, Berlin 1974, no. 156 c (of c) (m. Abb.).
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 253, SHG no. 362 (illu.).
Kunsthaus Lempertz Köln, Kunst des XX. Jahrhunderts. Gemälde, Plastik, Aquarelle, Handzeichnungen, Graphik, June 11, 1963, lot 516, illustrated.
Lithograph in colors.
Monogrammed. From an edition of 100 unnumbered copies. On faded, slightly hammered wove paper. 33 x 44 cm (12.9 x 17.3 in). Sheet: 41,8 x 52,5 cm (16,4 x 20,6 in).
Published by Kurt Wolff in Hyperion Verlag. [KA].
• One of Otto Mueller's very rare color lithographs.
• Outstanding example of Mueller's quest for a harmonious unity of man and nature.
• Strong graphic style.
• The motif of bathers in the open air is considered one of the main motifs of the “Brücke” artists Otto Mueller, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Hermann Max Pechstein and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Hesse (since 1963: Lempertz).
LITERATURE: Florian Karsch, Otto Mueller. Das graphische Gesamtwerk, Berlin 1974, no. 156 c (of c) (m. Abb.).
Heinz Spielmann (ed.), Die Maler der Brücke. Sammlung Hermann Gerlinger, Stuttgart 1995, p. 253, SHG no. 362 (illu.).
Kunsthaus Lempertz Köln, Kunst des XX. Jahrhunderts. Gemälde, Plastik, Aquarelle, Handzeichnungen, Graphik, June 11, 1963, lot 516, illustrated.
Nude bathers in nature are one of the major themes in Otto Mueller's oeuvre, which the artist repeatedly revisited even after the "Brücke" had disbanded. The color lithograph "Fünf gelbe Akte am Wasser" was created in 1921, when Mueller took a break from teaching at the Breslau Academy, which he had been doing since 1919, to visit Schleswig-Holstein. Our work may have been inspired by a stay on the island of Föhr in 1920. In a composition of yellow bodies, the modulated blue water, white beach, and black contours, Otto Mueller allows the bodies of the young girls to act cheerful and lively. The vibrancy of this scene is reminiscent of the works that Heckel, Kirchner, and Pechstein created on the Moritzburg Ponds around a decade earlier, a time that Otto Mueller remembers here in a delightfully offensive eroticism. [MvL]
123000929
Otto Mueller
Fünf gelbe Akte am Wasser, (Fünf Mädchen am Strand, Nordsee, Badende Mädchen), 1921.
Lithograph in colors
Estimation: € 20,000 / $ 22,000
Les informations sur la commission d´achat, les taxes et le droit de suite sont disponibles quatre semaines avant la vente.