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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR53.102
People
Otto Mueller, German (Liebau, Germany (now Lubaka, Poland) 1874 - 1930 Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland))
Title
Nude in a Landscape
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1925
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/223760

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Distemper on burlap
Dimensions
120.2 × 89.2 cm (47 5/16 × 35 1/8 in.)
frame: 151.1 × 120.7 cm (59 1/2 × 47 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: initialled in oil at l.r.: O.M.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf, Berlin]. Rudolf Frank, Mannheim and Heidelberg, 1930. [Das Kunsthaus, Mannheim.] [Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin]. Albert Ottenheimer, Berlin. [Herbert Tannenbaum, New York], sold; to Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1953.



Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Association Fund
Accession Year
1953
Object Number
BR53.102
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Peter Nisbet and Joseph Koerner, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, ed. Peter Nisbet, Harvard University Art Museums and Scala Publishers Ltd. (Cambridge, MA and London, England, 2007), p. 163
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 197, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Works from the 20th Century Collection of the Busch-Reisinger, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 06/15/1980 - 09/01/1980; Wildenstein Gallery, New York, New York, 09/23/1980 - 10/24/1980
  • 32Q: 1500 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Expressionism-Interwar), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 03/28/2024
  • Otto Mueller, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, 09/20/2024 - 02/02/2025

Subjects and Contexts

  • ReFrame

Verification Level

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