Ein Sitzendes und ein Kniendes Mädchen unter Blattern. A Seated and a Kneeling Girl Beneath Foliage. by Otto Müller, 1874-1930

Otto Müller, 1874-1930
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Ein Sitzendes und ein Kniendes Mädchen unter Blattern. A Seated and a Kneeling Girl Beneath Foliage.

Original lithograph in black ink. 1920. From the unsigned edition issued for the album: Deutscher Grafiker der Gegenwart, published by Pfister Leipzig 1920. Printed Leipzig 1920.
Ref: Karsch - Müller Graphisches Werk no 110 c, with the text line on the reverse, as issued.

Very fine strong 'punchy' impression. On stiff cream wove hard-surfaced paper. Excellent original condition, not restored. Full margins. Sheet: 9 3/4 x 12 3/4ins. Image: 6 7/8 x 9 1/4ins (174x235mm)

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The dominant theme of Müller's work was studies of the nude, or of gypsy figures, in a wild landscape setting.

Müller joined the Brücke circle of Kirchner, Schmidt-Rottluff, Heckel and Pechstein in 1910. He was drawn into their aesthetic milieu by their interest in themes of the nude in the open air or the open-air life. There was a strong artistic, and later social, interest in Germany in the hedonism and emotional element of the open-air figure study, and the Brücke painters used to make frequent trips to the countryside, or the sea, where they would bathe naked and paint themes of bathing.