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Otto Mueller

Liebau, Silesia 1874 – 1930 Wrocław

”Badendes Mädchen im See”. Circa 1923

Coloured chalk on paper. 50,5 × 34,2 cm (19 ⅞ × 13 ½ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Otto Mueller. ”Badendes Mädchen im See”. Circa 1923.

Estimate:

EUR 15,000

 

- 20,000

USD 17,600

 

- 23,500

Sold for:

15,240 EUR (incl. premium)

Winter Auctions 2025

Modern & 19th Century Art, Friday, 28.11.2025

Information

Coloured chalk on paper. 50,5 × 34,2 cm (19 ⅞ × 13 ½ in.). Signed in pencil lower right: Otto Mueller. Catalogue raisonné: Von Lüttichau/Pirsig P1923/14. Accompanied by a certificate by Florian Karsch, Berlin, dated 12.11.1986. Framed

Thekla and Alfred Hess, Erfurt (?) / Erfurter Kunstverein (before 1931) / Städtisches Museum, Erfurt, confiscated as ‘degenerate’ on 27 August 1937, EK–No. 1733 / Galerie Ferdinand Möller, Berlin (1940) / Private Collection, Southern Germany (acquired in 1997 at Galerie Neher, Essen, thence by descent to the present owner)

Otto Mueller Gedenk-Ausstellung. Berlin, National-Galerie im Kronprinzenpalais, 1931, cat. no. 70 („Mädchen in Wasser stehend") / Blickpunkte VI. Essen, Galerie Neher, 1987, unpaginated, ill. / Fülle des Herbstes. Essen, Galerie Neher, 1996, p. 48, ill. 

4. 22. Kunst-Auktion. Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, Roman Norbert Ketterer, 24.–26.11.1949, cat. no. 1282 / Impressionist and Modern Watercolours and Drawings. London, Christie’s, 4.12.1984, cat. no. 175, ill. („Badende“) / Ernst Herrbach, Wolfram Morath-Vogel, Martina Roth and Kai and Schierz (ed.): Zwischen Avantgarde and Anpassung. Der Erfurter Kunstverein. Eine Dokumentation von 1886 bis 1945. Erfurt, Stadt Erfurt Angermuseum, 2009, p. 216

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