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Willy Müller-Lückendorf - Willy Müller-Lückendorf ”Morning Mood”. 1965.. Willy Müller-Lückendorf 1905 Olbersdorf near Zittau – 1969 Lückendorf Oil tempera on cardboard. Signed ”Müller-Lückendorf.” lower right. Verso extensively inscribed by hand with motif and technique, dated and signed ”''Morning Mood'' – Meadow above Burmester House in Lückendorf – towards Jeschken, from left Langenberg, Kalkberg – Raubschlossberg – Fuchsberg – in the middle ground open field before Lückendorf – in the foreground left Burmester House on the ridge road – Painting technique. Ground cardboard with oil ground + casein coating – Paint resin-oil paint Mussini – Painting medium Dauer + linseed oil 50% each – Final varnish Mussini wax varnish – Müller-Lückendorf 1965.”. Inscribed in pencil by another hand ”zur Promotion”. Framed in a light green and white painted moulding. Support slightly warped. Paint layer rubbed in the rebate area and with small nail holes, slightly yellowed in the sky. Frame minimally bumped and soiled. Dimensions: 35 x 50 cm, Frame 43 x 58 cm. Willy Müller-Lückendorf 1905 Olbersdorf near Zittau – 1969 Lückendorf 1919–22 training in the pattern design class of the Higher Weaving School in Zittau, subsequently worked as a weaver in the Mechanical Weaving Mill and studied at the Zittau Adult Education Center, particularly in the painting and drawing class, among others with Adolf Schorisch. Around 1923, Müller created his first landscape paintings with chalk and pastel, and around 1926/27, the first oil paintings were created. 1925–27 studies with Alexander Baranowsky in the Textile Art Department of the State Academy of Applied Arts in Dresden. From 1932 until his death, worked as a self-employed landscape painter in Lückendorf.