!!!Muehl, Otto

b. Grodnau (municipality of Mariasdorf, Burgenland), June 16, 1925, 
painter, prominent figure of the movement that came to be known as  
Wiener Aktionismus. As an artist M. created mixed material paintings 
and objects made of rubbish, organized events involving various 
materials ("Versumpfungen" - "swampings") between 1960 and 1971. 
Later, little work as an artist; M. lived and worked at the 
Friedrichshof in Burgenland, an "action-analytical commune", which was 
broken up in 1990.

!Literature
O. M., Arbeiten auf Papier aus den 60er Jahren, exhibition 
catalogue, Frankfurt am Main 1992.


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