Robert Müller - Woodcut on Japanese paper. - Sold

Robert Müller (1920–2003), a former pupil of Germaine Richier and her Swiss husband Otto Bänninger in their Zurich studio during the war, initially shared an interest in repurposed materials with César, Jean Tinguely, Odile Mir, and Albert Féraud, and even learned the blacksmith's trade. For Müller, the relationship to the body is expressed through line and symbol. The exhibition at the Museum of Issoudun reveals the power and mastery of this through a previously unknown collection of engravings, donated by art historian Rainer Michael Mason in memory of Miriam Müller, Robert's wife. Müller is less known for his graphic work, which spanned his entire career until he finally stopped sculpting in 1978. However, the lines in his genre scenes of Crete and self-portraits carry within them the nuances of his intentions. His work, alternately satirical, tragicomic, parabolic, and existential, starring dogs and birds, doses irony just as precisely as his sculptures, with which he achieves the highest refinement of form. Provenance: Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam, between 1960 and 1987.