Otto Mueller

Dunes on Sylt, um 1920

The German expressionist Otto Mueller travelled multiple times to the North Sea island of Föhr, where he visited his sister, and to Sylt. The lithograph “Dunes on Sylt” testifies to Mueller’s intense familiarity with this printmaking medium and his exploration of the expressionist perception of natural impressions. Carried out in a reductive manner, the composition of this small-format print draws our attention to the essential: the dune-filled landscape on the North Sea island of Sylt. Black co...

Signature: Signed, lower right: Otto Mueller

Nummerierung: 36, unten, mittig, gedruckt

MKdW (Dauerleihgabe aus Privatbesitz seit 2018).
Florian Karsch: Otto Mueller. Das graphische Gesamtwerk, Berlin 1974, S. 119, Nr. 98.
[Weiterführende Literatur] Gerhard Leistner: Otto Mueller, Verlorenes Paradies: Werke aus der Sammlung Karsch, Ausst.-Kat. Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg 2006.

Otto Mueller (1874 - 1930)

Dunes on Sylt

um 1920

Lithograph

Plattenmaß: 30.1 x 41.5 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 8 MUE 03_LG

Museum Kunst der Westküste

On permanent loan 2018

Not on display

Foto: Lukas Spörl