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Otto Muller

Otto Muller (1874 - 1930) was active/lived in Germany, Poland.  Otto Muller is known for Expressionist female nude and landscape painting, printmaking.

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Otto Mueller was born in Liebau, Silesia (now Poland).  He began his training at age sixteen in a four-year apprenticeship to a lithographer in Gorlitz.  In 1894 he enrolled at the Academy of Art in Dresden, where he studied for two years.  Mueller remained near Dresden until 1908, but did not meet any of the artists affiliated with Die Brucke* until 1910, two years after his move to Berlin.  It was then, after having his work rejected for inclusion in the Berlin Secession* exhibition, that he joined Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein in founding the Neue Secession.  These artists, along with other members of the Brucke, exhibited their work in an alternative exhibition, "Rejects of the Berlin Secession." Mueller's images of nudes in nature, for which he is best known, caught the attention of the Brucke artists.  He was invited to join the group, and he remained affiliated until its dissolution in 1913.

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