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“(...) Born in Carinthia and educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Oskar Mulley had settled in Kufstein, Tyrol, after the First World War. After an early Symbolist phase influenced by the Viennese Secession, he developed his unique style of spatula technique in the early 1920s. Mountain chapels and mountain farms thereby played a dominant role as motifs.
Oskar Mulley’s most important paintings were created during his Kufstein years from 1918 to 1934 – paintings that became part of the canon of modern alpine landscape painting. From 1934 onwards, in Garmisch, Bavaria, he initially continued with his palette knife technique before turning to finer brushwork in his later work.
This painting belongs to Mulley’s most successful phase, between the late 1920s and early 1930s, and dates from around 1930. The composition of the mountain farmstead against a backdrop of mountains, the consistent palette knife technique with the impasto application of paint, the colouring and the motif all bear the unmistakeable handwriting of Oskar Mulley. (...)”
(Excerpt from the Confirmation of Authenticity by Dr Günther Moschig, 26.09.2023)