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Hermann Mühlen was a German landscape, figure and still life painter and a member of the artists' association Das Junge Rheinland. After completing a three-and-a-half-year internship with the fresco and church painter Fritz Stummel in Kevelaer, he was accepted at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1904. From May 13, 1908, he was enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Angelo Jank in drawing and studied with Ludwig von Herterich. His travels to France, Belgium, Holland and Italy familiarized Mühlen with the various currents of modern art. He then joined the artists' association "Das Junge Rheinland" and exhibited regularly in the Rhineland and in Munich. In 1920 Mühlen married the painter Josefine (Mühlen-)Schmid. Around this time, Mühlen was intensively involved with religious themes and with Expressionism. In addition to nudes, landscapes, still lifes and paintings with sacred themes, he also designed murals. In his figure compositions and nudes, the proximity to the French style of the 1920s to Art Deco is noticeable, his landscapes and still lifes show the influence of Cézanne. In 1943/4, almost all of Mühlen's work was destroyed by the effects of war. His late work includes nudes and landscapes, which are characterized by abstraction and a luminous colorfulness.
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