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Otto Muehl

1925 - 2013

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Otto Muehl (16 June 1925 – 26 May 2013) was an Austrian artist and convicted sex criminal, who was known as one of the co-founders as well as a main participant of Viennese Actionism and for founding the Friedrichshof Commune. In 1943, Muehl had to serve in the German Wehrmacht, where he registered for officer training. He was promoted to lieutenant, and in 1944 he took part in infantry battles in the course of the Ardennes Offensive. After the war, he studied teaching German and History, and Pedagogy of Art at the Wiener Akademie der bildenden Künste. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Muehl is the 1,442nd most popular painter (down from 1,238th in 2019), the 728th most popular biography from Austria (down from 642nd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Austrian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Otto Muehl ranks 1,442 out of 2,023. Before him are Ants Laikmaa, Isidore Pils, Emily Carr, Ilya Glazunov, Sam Francis, and Charles Demuth. After him are Roger de La Fresnaye, Robert Ryman, José Malhoa, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Antonio Ciseri, and Antón Lamazares.

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Among people born in 1925, Otto Muehl ranks 262. Before him are Veikko Hakulinen, Lennart Bergelin, Vojtěch Jasný, Don Alden Adams, Yogi Berra, and Konrad Wolf. After him are Ernst Neizvestny, Seymour Cray, Henning Larsen, Gordon George Avery, Julian Beck, and Shehu Shagari. Among people deceased in 2013, Otto Muehl ranks 240. Before him are Rentarō Mikuni, Torbjørn Falkanger, Eileen Brennan, Hennadiy Udovenko, George Duke, and Martin Koeman. After him are Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Peter Banks, Henning Larsen, Ignacio Eizaguirre, Zdeněk Zikán, and Eero Mäntyranta.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Otto Muehl ranks 728 out of 1,424. Before him are František Svoboda (1906), Joseph Rock (1884), Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria (1869), Fritz Heider (1896), Christopher Alexander (1936), and Max Merkel (1918). After him are Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727), Robert Dienst (1928), Fritz Klein (1932), Maria Lassnig (1919), Rudolf von Alt (1812), and Friederike Mayröcker (1924).

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Among PAINTERS In Austria

Among painters born in Austria, Otto Muehl ranks 23. Before him are Ernst Fuchs (1930), Josef Kriehuber (1800), Franz Defregger (1835), Carl Moll (1861), Olga Wisinger-Florian (1844), and Karl von Blaas (1815). After him are Maria Lassnig (1919), Rudolf von Alt (1812), Daniel Gran (1694), Maria Wodzińska (1819), Josef Abel (1764), and Josef Danhauser (1805).

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