ORLA MUFF* (Copenhagen 1903 - 1984 Copenhagen) Dancers, c. 1930 oil/canvas 50,5 x 63 cm signed Muff ESTIMATE °€ 800 - € 1200 STARTING PRICE € 800 The Dutch artist Jan Mulder attended vocational and art schools in Amsterdam and Haarlem from 1910 to 1915 and in the meantime maintained close contact with the music world. During the First World War he was mobilised from 1915 to 1918. He then worked as a theatre designer, interior designer and commercial artist and continued to develop as a painter. He had contacts with the Amsterdam avant-garde art scene, where he met Erich Wichmann, Laurens van Kuijck, Piet Mondriaan and Theo van Doesburg. In 1921 he travelled to Cuba, Mexico and the USA. A year later, he debuted his paintings in "De Branding" in Rotterdam. A year later, he debuted his paintings in "De Branding" in Rotterdam. From 1925 to 1931 he lived and worked in France, first in Paris, where he worked with Erich Wichmann at the Dutch pavilion of the "Exposition Internationale des Arts decoratifs" and later in the fishing village of Etaples-sur-Mer. He was a member and exhibited at "Les vrais Indépendents". Board positions After his return to Amsterdam he became a board member of "De Independents" and chairman of the painters' association "De Brug". With the latter group he exhibited annually at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In 1941 he refused to become a member of the German Cultural Chamber and had to resign from his office. Mulder worked in the artists' resistance and was therefore interned in Vught and later in Dachau. In 1946/47 he received two consecutive scholarships from the Dutch-Swedish Van Gogh Committee to stay in Sweden. In 1947 Mulder settled permanently in Sweden, first in Strängnäs and from 1958 until his death in Eskilstuna. After moving to Sweden, he initially made mainly portraits, but later sought isolation in order to develop in a completely different field. He created large-format paintings and watercolours that are completely abstract and bear no relation to any observed reality. In the early 1980s, when his eyesight was rapidly failing, he discovered charcoal as a medium. Further artists and styles: Henri Jonas, Charles Eyck, Frans Masereel, Jozef Cantré, Piet Mondrian, Leo Gestel, Bart van der Leck, Expressionism, Cubism PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and, the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.