Zigeunermadonna

Name: OTTO MUELLER (1874-1930)
Brand: Zigeunermadonna
Price: 10000.00 GBP
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OTTO MUELLER (1874-1930)

Zigeunermadonna

Closed: 28 Sep 2022

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OTTO MUELLER (1874-1930)
Zigeunermadonna
lithograph printed from three stones in black, light brown and grey, 1926-27, on thin brown wove paper, from the unnumbered edition of sixty impressions, published by the artist and Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf, Berlin, printed by Lange Akademie, Breslau, one of approximately forty impressions from the artist's estate (only approximately twenty were issued during the artist's lifetime), signed and inscribed Lithographie von Otto Mueller in pencil on the reverse by Erich Heckel on the reverse
Image 700 x 505 mm.
Sheet 704 x 505 mm.

With Ewald Rathke Kunsthandel, Frankfurt am Main.
Acquired from the above by Deutsche Bank on 20 September 1970.

Karsch 168

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Lot Essay

Shortly after his return from the battlefields of France and Russia of World War I, where he had nearly died of pneumonia, Otto Mueller was given a professorship at the State Academie of Art and Crafts in Breslau (today Wrocław, Poland). It was there that he began to experiment with colour printing and where, a few years later, he created the ('Gypsy') portfolio, the culmination of his entire printed oeuvre. Based on his experiences of living amongst Roma people in Bosnia and Croatia, the portfolio consists of nine colour lithographs depicting portraits, interiors and rural scenes with figures in a Romani village. The prints are large in scale (approximately 70 x 50 cm) and most were intended to be partially handcoloured. An edition of sixty impressions respectively was printed, but only approximately twenty portfolios were completed, signed and numbered, and issued over time in a variety of portfolio covers of different design.
Mueller died of tuberculosis in 1930 aged 55. The remainder of the edition, about forty impressions of each subject, was found in the artist's estate, including the present . The prints were authenticated and signed by Mueller's friend and former fellow member of the artists' group, Erich Heckel.
Otto Mueller's portfolio was one of the most ambitious printmaking projects of the entire Expressionist movement, and complete sets issued during the artist's lifetime are of utmost rarity. The prints, with their rich, earthy tonality and stark but graceful figures are of a lyrical, melancholic beauty.