Maria Mayerhofer (1880–1952), alias Maschka, was Mueller’s great love. Although she broke up with him and he had three other women in his life, she remained in contact with him until his death.
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Maschka Mueller
Maschka and Otto met in the winter of 1899. Also an artist, she became his lover and later on his wife. She was his favourite model and his manager for art sales and contacts.
This portrait by Otto Dix (1891–1969) emphasises Maschka’s lips and stylish bob. This typical hairstyle of the 1920s was commonly associated with an eccentric lifestyle called garçonne, referring to emancipated, modern young women. Today, we would call this ideal of beauty “androgynous”.
Lovers sitting or standing are a recurring motif in Otto Mueller’s oeuvre. The pictures presented here figure him and Maschka. How are they sitting?
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Otto Dix, Portrait of Mrs Maschka Mueller, 1923, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Photo: LWL/Hanna Neander
Otto Dix, Portrait of Mrs Maschka Mueller, 1923, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster
Photo: LWL/Hanna Neander
Male Gaze, the [meɪl geɪz]
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perception of women from a heterosexual male perspective that often sexualises the female body.
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Between Berlin and Wroclaw
In 1919, Otto Mueller was appointed to the Breslau Academy of Fine Arts. (The city is now in Poland and called Wrocław). Teaching nude drawing, he was the first professor to admit female students to his class, thus ending the exclusion of women from this form of art and opening up new career opportunities to them.
After Maschka had left him and decided to live in Berlin, his partners in Breslau were Irene Altmann and Elsbeth Lübke, but it is difficult to identify the models he portrayed during this period.
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Irene Altmann
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Elsbeth Lübke
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Elfriede ,Fibs' Timm
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Irene Altmann, around 1920, Photo: Estate of Irene Altmann, Archive catalogue raisonné Otto Mueller catalogue raisonné (until2017)/ LWL-MKuK, Münster
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Otto Mueller, Girl’s Head (Portrait of Irene Altmann) (detail), 1921/1922, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, acquired in 2006, Photo: LWL-MKuK/Hanna Neander
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Otto Mueller and Elsbeth Lübke, around 1924, photo: Mueller estate, Frenzel family, Berlin
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Otto Mueller, Nude standing on the shore (Flensburg Fjord, 1923, in the Rolf Horn Foundation in the Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation Schloss Gottorf, Photo: Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen
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Elfriede Timm, in St. Peter-Ording 1974, Foto Nachlass Elfriede Timm, Archiv Werkverzeichnis Otto Mueller Werkverzeichnis (bis2017)/ LWL-MKuK, Münster
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Elfriede Timm, in St. Peter-Ording 1974, photo Estate of Elfriede Timm, Archive catalogue raisonné Otto Mueller catalogue raisonné (until 2017)/ LWL-MKuK, Münster
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