Otto Muehl (Austrian, 1925 - 2013)

Otto Muehl

Austrian | 1925 - 2013

Otto Muehl was an Austrian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1925. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz have featured Otto Muehl's work in the past.Otto Muehl's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 259 USD to 187,434 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 187,434 USD for “der kranke bacchus” caravaggio, sold at Dorotheum, Vienna in 2021. Otto Muehl has been featured in articles for e-flux, ArtDaily and Daily Art Magazine. The most recent article is Hermann Nitsch's colors take over the Musée de l'Orangerie written for Le Monde in December 2023. The artist died in 2013.

Artist's alternative names: Otto Mühl

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Past Exhibitions

A Phoenix Journey

Jan 26,2024 - Apr 20,2024

Overlaps

Galerie Konzett
Vienna | Austria
Jan 18,2024 - Mar 31,2024

Articles

Hermann Nitsch's colors take over the Musée de l'Orangerie
ON STAGE—All the Art World’s a Stage
Exhibition explores the various theatrical and stage-related forms of expression in art since the 1960s

Coverage

..It's possible that Muehl's complex relationship with his mother, who in the dementia of her old age adored her son yet also rejected him as morally depraved, played a role in the psychodynamics of this...

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Maccarone, Greenwich Street

..Muehl's transformation from an avant-gardist to a postmodernist was now complete, and in the alternative world of the commune he no longer attributes expressive-gestural abstraction in painting any deeper...

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Maccarone, Greenwich Street

..Like many other artists, Muehl occupied this field of action early on - precisely in order to shit on the affirmative and ideological in art, demonstratively and with relish...

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Maccarone, Greenwich Street

..Muehl's early Materialbilder ('Material Painings') and Materialaktionen ('Material Actions'), with which he co-founded Viennese Actionism in the early 1960s, were radical and fundamental, but also idealistic...

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Maccarone, Greenwich Street

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