Otto Mueller

Five Yellow Nudes by the Water, 1921

This sheet shows three nude young women strolling along the beach, each slightly behind the other. Tufts of beach grass sprout up between their feet. While the figure at the front turns towards the viewer, the woman in the middle smiles back at the last, who has gently wrapped her arms around those of the second and looks down shyly. Behind her and to the right, two other female figures can be seen wading through the water, side by side, in the opposite direction. Mueller presents a moment of co...

Signatur: Otto Mueller, unten rechts, handschriftlich

Sammlung Tremmel, München (bis 2003); Privatbesitz, Norddeutschland (bis 2015); MKdW (2015).
Florian Karsch: Otto Mueller zum hundertsten Geburtstag. Das graphische Gesamtwerk. Holzschnitte, Radierungen, Lithographien, Farblithographien, Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin 1974, S. 192, Nr. 156.
10 Jahre MKdW. Meisterwerke, hrsg. von Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen, Ausst.-Kat. Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr, Köln 2019, S. 328ff., Kat. 137.

Otto Mueller (1874 - 1930)

Five Yellow Nudes by the Water

1921

Lithography on light yellow laid paper

Blattmaß: 42.5 x 52.8 cm, Bildmaß: 34.5 x 44.5 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 8 MUE 01

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2015

Not on display