“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

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German painter and printmaker of the expressionist movement 1874–1930

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