Alexander Müllegg – Bernese Artist – Drawing of a Couple Embracing

The Embrace

Original Drawing

Condition: Very good. Some light creasing, fraying at edges of sheet.

Not framed

embrace

Alexander Müllegg
1904 – 1983 Bern, Switzerland

Also known as: Alexander Muellegg

Alexander Müllegg was a Bernese painter and illustrator who is best known for his depictions of the elegant women of Bern during the 1930s and 40s as well as soft toned landscapes of the region around Bern, Switzerland.  He was a friend of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.  Muelleg’s works were regularly exhibited in the German regions of Switzerland during his lifetime, including an exposition in Bern in 1946 where his works were featured alongside the work of the French Nabis painter Edouard Vuillard.