Brücke 1912 Pechstein
1912
Medium
portfolio cover with color woodcut printed in gold-yellow on black wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 37.5 × 30.3 cm (14 3/4 × 11 15/16 in.) sheet: 57.4 × 43.8 cm (22 5/8 × 17 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.399
About the Artist
Otto Mueller
Otto Mueller (1874–1930) was a German Expressionist painter whose distinctive vision of the human figure in landscape made him one of the most poetic and individual voices within the Die Brücke movement. Born in Liebau in Silesia, he trained at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and subsequently worked briefly in Munich before his pivotal association with the artists of Die Brücke — Ernst Ludwig Kir...