Otto Mühl papers, circa 1918-circa 1997

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Otto Mühl papers, circa 1918-circa 1997

circa 1918-circa 1997

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2011m38

The archive of Otto Mühl, co-founder and one of the main participants of Viennese Actionism, and founder of the living experiment known as the Friedrichshof Commune, includes his complete diaries and a wealth of theoretical writings about Actionism, the concept of Action Analysis, and life in a commune as an alternative model of society. Also present is his correspondence; legal documents relating to court proceedings against Mühl and other participants of Viennese Actionism; approximately 1000 negatives and contact sheets of Mühl's actions taken by the Austrian photographer Ludwig Hoffenreich; circa 165 sketchbooks with drawings and writings by Mühl; and a collection of press reviews of Viennese Actionism published in Austrian and German newspapers in the 1960s and 1970s. Also included is correspondence of Otto Mühl's family, various family documents and records, hundreds of personal photographs, and Mühl's juvenile drawings and writings.

47.79 Linear Feet (108 boxes)

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Muehl, Otto, 1925-2013

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Otto Mühl, or Muehl, was one of the co-founders and participants of Viennese Actionism and founder and mastermind of a communal living experiment known as the Friedrichshof Commune. Born in 1925 in Grodnau, Burgenland, Austria, Mühl spent his childhood and youth with his parents Otto and Wilma Mühl and brother Edwin, in Gols, where his father was a primary school teacher. In 1943, he was drafted into the German Wehrmacht and took part in infantry battles in the course of the Ardennes Offens...