About the Artwork
Gypsy Encampment
ca. 1925
Otto Mueller
1874-1930
German
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 41 1/2 × 57 inches (105.4 × 144.8 cm) Framed: 43 1/2 × 59 5/16 × 2 3/4 inches (110.5 × 150.7 × 7 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Gift of Robert H. Tannahill
57.182
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Markings
Signed, lower left: O.M.
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Provenance
1931-July 7, 1937, Nationalgalerie, Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
July 7, 1937-1939, confiscated by the German Reich (Deutsches Reich)/The Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda), Berlin, Germany as “degenerate art [“Entartete Kunst,” no. 15971]
by 1939, (Bernhard A. Böhmer, Güstrow, Germany). by 1939, (Buch- und Kunsthandlung Karl Buchholz, Berlin, Germany)
by 1939, transferred to (Curt Valentin, Buchholz Gallery, New York, New York, USA)
1939-1957, purchased by Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA)
1957-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Otto Mueller 1874-1930: Gedächtnis Ausstellung. Exh. cat., Schlesisches Museum der Bildenden Künste. Breslau, 1931, p. 13, no. 61; p. 21 (ill.).
Buchheim, L. "Otto Mueller: Leben und Werke," Buchheim Verlag (1963): p. 122, no. 48.
Haftmann, W. Malerei in 20 Jahrhundert. Munich, 1955, p. 311, pl. 172.
Uhr, Horst. Masterpieces of German Expressionism at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1982, p. 168 (ill.).
Dearing, Stewart. "Painting the other within: Gypsies according to the Bohemian artist in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries," Romani Studies, ser. 5, vol. 20, no. 2 (2010): p. 192.
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Otto Mueller, Gypsy Encampment, ca. 1925, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 57.182.
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