OTTO MUEHL* (Grodnau 1925 - 2013 Moncarpacho)

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Nov 23, 2023

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• Lot Description
  OTTO MUEHL* (Grodnau 1925 - 2013 Moncarpacho)
  Love play
  mixed media/paper, 62 x 88 cm
  signed Muehl, dated 22.3.85
  
  ESTIMATE € 6000 - 12000
  STARTING PRICE € 6000
  
  Otto Muehl is considered a key protagonist of Viennese Actionism. Together with Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Hermann Nitsch, Günther Brus and Adolf Frohner, he pushed the boundaries of traditional art in conservative post-war Austria. As a former Wehrmacht soldier, Muehl himself was deeply influenced by the war. After the war, he dedicated himself to studying to become a teacher in German, history and later also art education. During his studies he worked as a “painting therapist”. The first campaigns to expand the panel painting began at the beginning of the 1960s. Muehl saw this only possible in the form of overcoming and destruction and used the (female) body as material. In 1962, the artists Hermann Nitsch and Adolf Frohner created the manifesto and the multi-day campaign “The Blood Organ”, during which the three artists had themselves walled up in Muehl's basement studio. A few years later, the most well-known action in Austrian post-war art, “Art and Revolution,” was created by Muehl, Günter Brus, Oswald Wiener and Peter Weibel in a lecture hall at the University of Vienna. In 1970, Mühl founded the “Aktion Analytical Organization (AAO)” as an attempt to differentiate himself from conventional happenings. The commune that settled in Friedrichshof in Burgenland in 1974 was inspired by Wilhelm Reich and tried to escape traditional norms by dissolving the traditional family, free sexuality and communal property. Muehl's artistic work from the 1970s onwards encompasses different styles, from Pop Art and works inspired by Picasso to representation and abstraction.
  
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