About the Artwork
Bathers
ca. 1920
Otto Mueller
1874-1930
German
Unknown
Oil on canvas
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)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
City of Detroit Purchase
21.210
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Markings
Signed, lower left: O.M.
Inscribed, on stretcher: ottomueller
Provenance
1921–present, purchased by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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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.).
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Otto Mueller, Bathers, ca. 1920, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.210.
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