Standing Girl on Water and the Other Sitting on the Shore
1921-1922
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lithograph in black on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 38.5 x 28.7 cm (15 3/16 x 11 5/16 in.) sheet: 56 x 44 cm (22 1/16 x 17 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jacob Kainen
Accession Number
2002.98.355
Art Historical Context
Otto Mueller's *Standing Girl on Water and Other Sitting on the Shore (1921-1922) captures a serene moment of two female figures—one poised gracefully in shallow water, the other resting on the bank—in a minimalist black lithograph on laid paper. Printed from a 38.5 x 28.7 cm plate on a larger 56 x 44 cm sheet, this work exemplifies Mueller's mastery of printmaking during the Weimar era, a time of artistic experimentation following World War I. As a key member of the German Expression group Die Brücke, Mueller drew inspiration from primitivism, folk art, and his travels with Sinti and Roma co...
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...