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“I will try to develop an entirely new style and I am sure I will succeed.”

“Since I am not well and have difficulty walking... More than anything else, I need lots of rest; even letter-writing is a strain.”

Otto Mueller

in letter 03-223, Summer 1930, from Bad Salzbrunn; as quoted in Otto Mueller: A Stand-Alone Modernist, Dieter W. Posselt; 2006 / new edition 2010, Books on Demand, GmbH, Norderstedt, Germany - ISBN:978-3-8448-6866-1

“My principle aim is to express my experience of landscape and human beings with the greatest possible simplicity.”

Otto Mueller

as quoted by de:Wolf-Dieter Dube, in Expressionism, de:Wolf-Dieter Dube; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 90

“I depict my life and experiences in my works of art.”

Otto Mueller

quoted by his sister Emmy Muellers in her 'Recollections'; as cited in Otto Mueller: A Stand-Alone Modernist, Dieter W. Posselt; 2006 / new edition 2010, Books on Demand, GmbH, Norderstedt, Germany - ISBN:978-3-8448-6866-1

“I have always taken the art of the ancient Egyptians as my model, even in purely technical matters.”

Otto Mueller

Quote of Otto Mueller, 1919; as cited by de:Wolf-Dieter Dube, in Expressionism, de:Wolf-Dieter Dube; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 90

“By new style I meant mainly technical aspects. It is impossible to experience things from an entirely new angle through will-power; it has to mature in solitude.”

Otto Mueller

from (letter 03 205) and (letter 03 147); as quoted in Otto Mueller: A Stand-Alone Modernist, Dieter W. Posselt; 2006 / new edition 2010, Books on Demand, GmbH, Norderstedt, Germany - ISBN:978-3-8448-6866-1, unpaged