Otto Mueller Otto Mueller or Muller (16 October 1874 - 24 September 1930) was a German painter and printmaker of the Die Brucke expressionist movement. Otto Mueller was born in Liebau (now Lubawka, Kamienna Gora County), Kreis Landeshut, German Silesia. Between 1890 and 1892 he was trained in lithography in Gorlitz and Breslau. From 1894 to 1896 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden and continued his study in Munich during 1898. He left Munich's academy after Franz von Stuck classified him as untalented.