Bathers, ca. 1920

  • Otto Mueller, German, 1874-1930

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 37 1/4 × 31 inches (94.6 × 78.7 cm)
  • 42 1/4 × 35 7/8 × 1 15/16 inches (107.3 × 91.1 × 4.9 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

21.210

On View

  • Modern, Level 2, North
  • Modern, Level 2, North

Department

European Modern Art to 1970

Signed, lower left: O.M.

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.).

Otto Mueller, Bathers, ca. 1920, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.210.