Artist Otto Mueller, German, 1874-1930
Title
  • Bathers
Date ca. 1920
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Unframed: 37 1/4 × 31 inches (94.6 × 78.7 cm)
Framed: 42 1/4 × 35 7/8 × 1 15/16 inches (107.3 × 91.1 × 4.9 cm)
Credit Line City of Detroit Purchase
Accession Number 21.210
Department European Modern Art to 1950
On View Modern N230, Level 2 (see map)
Signed Signed, lower left: O.M.
Inscriptions Inscribed, on stretcher: ottomueller
1921–present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City Detroit. Detroit, 1930, no. 150.

Richardson, Edgar P., ed. The Detroit Institute of Arts: Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 93, no. 150.

German Expressionism in Art, 1905–1935. Exh. cat., University of Minnesota: University Gallery. Minneapolis, 1950, no. 93.

“Mueller, Otto.” Encyclopedia of Painting: Painters and Painting of the World from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day, ed. Bernard S. Myers. New York, 1955, p. 353 (ill.).

Sharp, Ellen. "Introduction." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 45, no. 3-4 (1966): p. 48.

Uhr, Horst. Masterpieces of German Expressionism at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1982, p. 164 (ill.).

Beal, Graham W.J. and Debra N. Mancoff. Treasures of the DIA. Detroit, 2007, p. 393, no. 317 (ill.).