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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT GERMAN COLLECTION
OTTO MUELLER 1874-1930)
Drei Badende und rotbraune Bäume
Details
OTTO MUELLER 1874-1930)
Drei Badende und rotbraune Bäume
signed 'Otto Mueller' (on the reverse)
distemper on burlap
26 x 33 5⁄8 in. (66 x 85.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1914
Drei Badende und rotbraune Bäume
signed 'Otto Mueller' (on the reverse)
distemper on burlap
26 x 33 5⁄8 in. (66 x 85.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1914
Provenance
Dr. Hans Pototzky, Breslau (by 1931).
Dr. Joachim Hermann, La Paz.
Anon. sale, Kunsthaus Math, Lempertz, Cologne, 19 June 1959, lot 259.
Anon. sale, Kunsthaus Math, Lempertz, Cologne, 3 December 1960, lot 320.
Galerie Aenne Abels, Cologne (1963).
Dr. Heinz Paffenholz, Wipperfürth (by 1964, until 1999).
Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1999, by whom agreed a just and fair resolution with the Heirs of Dr. Hans Pototzky, 2025.
Dr. Joachim Hermann, La Paz.
Anon. sale, Kunsthaus Math, Lempertz, Cologne, 19 June 1959, lot 259.
Anon. sale, Kunsthaus Math, Lempertz, Cologne, 3 December 1960, lot 320.
Galerie Aenne Abels, Cologne (1963).
Dr. Heinz Paffenholz, Wipperfürth (by 1964, until 1999).
Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1999, by whom agreed a just and fair resolution with the Heirs of Dr. Hans Pototzky, 2025.
Literature
L.-G. Buchheim, Otto Mueller: Leben und Werk, Feldafing, 1963, p. 27 (illustrated in color).
S. Twardoch, "Was tun 1914 drei nackte Frauen im Wald?" in Grisebach, Das Journal, no. 8, fall 2018, pp. 26-29 (illustrated in color in-situ, p. 26; illustrated again in color, p. 28).
T. Pirsig and M.-A. von Lüttichau, Otto Mueller: Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und Zeichnungen, Munich, 2020, p. 134, no. G1914/12 (119) (illustrated in color).
S. Twardoch, "Was tun 1914 drei nackte Frauen im Wald?" in Grisebach, Das Journal, no. 8, fall 2018, pp. 26-29 (illustrated in color in-situ, p. 26; illustrated again in color, p. 28).
T. Pirsig and M.-A. von Lüttichau, Otto Mueller: Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde und Zeichnungen, Munich, 2020, p. 134, no. G1914/12 (119) (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Breslau, Schlesisches Museum der bildenden Künste, Gedächtnis Ausstellung Otto Mueller, 1931, p. 10, no. 18.
Cologne, Dom Galerie, Otto Mueller, April-June 1963, no. 2.
Berlin, Galerie Nierendorf, Otto Mueller, June-October 1964, no. 20 (illustrated in color, p. 26).
London, Tate Gallery, Painters of the Brücke: Heckel, Kirchner, Mueller, Nolde, Pechstein, Schmidt-Rottluff, October-December 1964, p. 49, no. 115 (illustrated in color, p. 22, pl. 10).
Cologne, Dom Galerie, Otto Mueller, April-June 1963, no. 2.
Berlin, Galerie Nierendorf, Otto Mueller, June-October 1964, no. 20 (illustrated in color, p. 26).
London, Tate Gallery, Painters of the Brücke: Heckel, Kirchner, Mueller, Nolde, Pechstein, Schmidt-Rottluff, October-December 1964, p. 49, no. 115 (illustrated in color, p. 22, pl. 10).
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