(Grodnau 1925–2013 Moncarapacho, Portugal)
“Der kranke Bacchus” Caravaggio, signed and dated otto muehl 6.8.86 on the reverse, as well as titled “Der kranke Bacchus” Caravaggio, acrylic on canvas, 220 x 160 cm, on stretcher

After:
“Der kranke Bacchus”, 1593, by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Provenance:
Dorotheum, December 1, 2011, lot 220
Private Collection, Vienna


You can only learn something by building on what already exists. The whole development of humans, from single-celled organisms through to complex cognition, participated in
a single learning process. In art one also has to lear to reach back to the past.
Whether it is in literature or elsewhere. I also draw on the Egyptians, the Renaissance, the physical. I have a stronger reference to the body than the Egyptians; they are much more abstract. Then there is the representation of space, folding space into the surface. Picasso. I married this approach with van Gogh, with colour theory.
So you have to build on the old in order to arrive at the new....

Conversation on 22 November 1996 from Otto Mühl. Aus dem Gefängnis, Ritter Verlag, 1997

Expert: Mag. Elke Königseder Mag. Elke Königseder
+43-1-515 60-358

elke.koenigseder@dorotheum.at

Odhadní cena:
EUR 90.000,- do EUR 120.000,-


(Grodnau 1925–2013 Moncarapacho, Portugal)
“Der kranke Bacchus” Caravaggio, signed and dated otto muehl 6.8.86 on the reverse, as well as titled “Der kranke Bacchus” Caravaggio, acrylic on canvas, 220 x 160 cm, on stretcher

After:
“Der kranke Bacchus”, 1593, by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Provenance:
Dorotheum, December 1, 2011, lot 220
Private Collection, Vienna


You can only learn something by building on what already exists. The whole development of humans, from single-celled organisms through to complex cognition, participated in
a single learning process. In art one also has to lear to reach back to the past.
Whether it is in literature or elsewhere. I also draw on the Egyptians, the Renaissance, the physical. I have a stronger reference to the body than the Egyptians; they are much more abstract. Then there is the representation of space, folding space into the surface. Picasso. I married this approach with van Gogh, with colour theory.
So you have to build on the old in order to arrive at the new....

Conversation on 22 November 1996 from Otto Mühl. Aus dem Gefängnis, Ritter Verlag, 1997

Expert: Mag. Elke Königseder Mag. Elke Königseder
+43-1-515 60-358

elke.koenigseder@dorotheum.at


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