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Otto Mueller Biography
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1874 |
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Born in Liebau, Silesia (now Poland)
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1890 - 1894 |
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Apprenticeship with a lithographer in Görlitz
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1894 - 1897 |
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Studies at the Academy of Art in Dresden
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1908 |
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Moved to Berlin with his wife Maschka
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1910 |
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After being rejected by the Berlin Secession, he founded the Neue Secession with Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein
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1911 |
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Worked with Heckel and Kirchner on the Baltic coast and at the Moritzburg Lakes near Dresden
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1913 |
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Final break-up of the Brücke group, Mueller maintains contact and friendship with the other former members
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1914 - 1918 |
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Served in the military for one year during World War I and is briefly hospitalized in 1917
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1919 |
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Mueller begins teaching at the Breslau Academy and continues there until his death
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1920 - 1929 |
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Extensive travels throughout Eastern Europe
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1930 |
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Died on September 24th in a sanatorium near Breslau
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008
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Galerie Thomas, Munich (solo)
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1912
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Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin
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1910
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Galerie Arnold, Dresden
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