Lot 133: Albert Mueller (Müller)

Albert Mueller (Müller) (1884 Schwandorf/Baden - 1963 Bremen). Traumbilder. Um 1920 Oil and gilt bronze on canvas, mackled. Signed lower right.89 x 71,2 cm (35 x 28 in). Provenienz: Private collection Essen. Ausstellung: Albert Mueller. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Collagen, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, Museum des Landkreises Waldshut, Schloß Bonndorf/Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Schloß Dätzingen, 1990,cat. no. 71, p. 112 (ill. in colours). Kuno Schlichtenmaier/Alexander Klee, Albert Mueller - Leben und Werk, Stuttgart 1992, p. 168, cat.no. 207 (ill. in colours).In a virtually abstract composition shaped by an exquisite palette and a diversity of form, Müller approaches Symbolist tendencies, which he, however, clothes in elegantly decorative forms. These are cheerful dream images, at a far remove from the nightmarish chimaeras his compatriot Johann Heinrich Füssli painted on canvas in the 18th century. [KD]Good overall impression. Lined tacking margins. Slight craquelé. Isolated tiny colour chippings and retouchings, mainly on the margins.