Artist Monograph

Otto Mueller, German

German, 1874–1930

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Lithography	14	82.4%
Oil Painting	1	5.9%
Gouache	1	5.9%
Woodcut	1	5.9%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	16	94.1%
Painting & Sculpture	1	5.9%

Classification Types

Print — 14
Painting — 1
Periodical — 1
Illustrated Book — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	5	29.4%
Medium (30–100 cm)	12	70.6%

Range: 22.3 cm → 90.8 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1940	7
1943	4
1952	1
1954	1
1955	1
1957	2

German Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 17 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Boy among Leaves (Boy in Reeds) (Knabe zwischen Blattpflanzen [Knabe im Schilf]) Print Acc. 440.1940	(1912, printed c. 1913-1925)	Woodcut	composition (irreg.): 11 1/8 x 14 13/16" (28.3 x 37.6 cm); sheet: 13 7/16 x 19 3/4" (34.2 x 50.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Zwei Badende am Ufer (Two Bathers on the Shore) Print Acc. 446.1940	(c. 1914)	Lithograph with gouache additions	composition: 12 13/16 x 16 15/16" (32.6 x 43.1 cm); sheet: 16 1/4 x 20 15/16" (41.3 x 53.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Three Figures and Crossed Tree Trunks (Drei Figuren und gekreuzte Stämme) (plate, folio 19) from the periodical Der Bildermann, vol. 1, no. 9 (Aug 1916) Periodical Acc. 330.1952.35	1916	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 10 3/8 x 8 3/8" (26.4 x 21.3 cm); sheet: 13 3/4 x 11" (34.9 x 28 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mrs. Bertha M. Slattery
Five Girls by a Pond in the Woods (1) [Fünf Mädchen am Waldteich (2)] Print Acc. 443.1940	(c. 1919)	Lithograph	composition: 15 3/16 x 11 5/16" (38.5 x 28.7 cm); sheet (irreg.): 20 9/16 x 15 1/4" (52.3 x 38.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Landscape with Yellow Nudes Painting Acc. 19.1955	c. 1919	Oil on burlap	27 5/8 x 35 3/4" (70.2 x 90.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Samuel A. Berger
One Girl Bathing and the Other Sitting on the Shore (2) [Badendes und am Ufer sitzendes Mädchen (2)] Print Acc. 442.1940	(c. 1919)	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 12 1/2 x 15 3/4" (31.7 x 40 cm); sheet (irreg.): 16 3/8 x 21 5/8" (41.6 x 54.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Bathers (Badende) (plate 20) from the illustrated book Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time) Illustrated Book Acc. 2.1942.13	1920	Lithograph from an illustrated book with fifteen lithographs, eight woodcuts, eight reproductions and one lithographed cover	composition (irreg.): 6 13/16 x 9 1/4" (17.3 x 23.5 cm); page: 12 11/16 x 9 9/16" (32.3 x 24.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Discovery of Moses (Auffindung des Moses) Print Acc. 671.1943	(c. 1920)	Lithograph	composition: 11 7/16 x 15 11/16" (29.1 x 39.8 cm); sheet: 12 3/16 x 16 1/8" (31 x 41 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Given anonymously
Mother and Child 2 (Small Version) (Mutter und Kind 2 [kleine Fassung]) Print Acc. 673.1943	(1920, published 1921)	Lithograph	composition: 10 3/16 x 7 5/16" (25.8 x 18.6 cm); sheet: 14 x 9 1/4" (35.5 x 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Given anonymously
Two Girls – Half Nudes (Zwei Mädchen – Halbakte) Print Acc. 441.1940	1920	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 17 3/16 x 13 1/2" (43.6 x 34.3 cm); sheet: 20 1/16 x 14 7/8" (50.9 x 37.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Two Girls in the Dunes at Sylt (Zwei Mädchen in den Dünen, Sylt) Print Acc. 391.1954	(1920-1924)	Lithograph	composition: 11 5/8 x 15 1/2" (29.5 x 39.4 cm); sheet (irreg.): 16 7/16 x 21" (41.8 x 53.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Samuel A. Berger
Two Girls in the Dunes at Sylt (Zwei Mädchen in den Dünen, Sylt) Print Acc. 444.1940	(1920-24)	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 11 5/8 x 15 7/16" (29.5 x 39.2 cm); sheet (irreg.): 17 1/8 x 21" (43.5 x 53.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Three Girls in Profile (Drei Mädchen im Profil) for the First Annual Portfolio 1921, no. 2 (Brücke Artists) (Erste Jahresgabe 1921, no. 2 [Die Künstler der Brücke]) Print Acc. 445.1940	(1921)	Lithograph	composition: 11 5/16 x 15 1/4" (28.7 x 38.7 cm); sheet (irreg.): 17 5/8 x 22 5/16" (44.7 x 56.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Half Nude Girl in Profile (in Front of a Picture) (Mädchen-Halbakt im Profil [vor einem Bild]) Print Acc. 674.1943	(1922)	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 8 3/4 x 6 13/16" (22.3 x 17.3 cm); sheet: 15 1/16 x 9 7/8" (38.2 x 25.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Given anonymously
Three Girls Before the Mirror (Drei Mädchen vor dem Spiegel) Print Acc. 187.1957	(c. 1922)	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 13 7/8 x 9 15/16" (35.2 x 25.3 cm); sheet (irreg.): 18 11/16 x 14 3/16" (47.5 x 36 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw
Two Bathers in a Brook (Zwei Badende im Bach) Print Acc. 672.1943	(c. 1922)	Lithograph	Composition: 9 13/16 x 6 11/16" (25 x 17 cm); sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 5/8" (36.8 x 27 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Given anonymously
Two Gypsy Girls in Living Room (Zwei Zigeunermädchen im Wohnraum) from the portfolio Gypsies (Zigeuner) Print Acc. 65.1957	(1926-27, published 1927)	Lithograph	composition (irreg.): 27 7/16 x 19 3/4" (69.7 x 50.2 cm); sheet: 27 11/16 x 19 3/4" (70.3 x 50.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Herbert Ziebolz