Girl on a Couch (Mädchen auf dem Kanapee)
Otto Mueller
1921/1922
Medium
lithograph
Dimensions
overall: 44 x 56.2 cm (17 5/16 x 22 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jacob Kainen
Accession Number
2002.98.315
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...