Three Girls in Profile (Drei Mädchen im Profil) for the First Annual Portfolio 1921, no. 2 (Brücke Artists) (Erste Jahresgabe 1921, no. 2 [Die Künstler der Brücke]), Otto Mueller, (1921), MoMA: Drawings and Prints
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Size: composition: 11 5/16 x 15 ¼" (28.7 x 38.7 cm); sheet (irreg.): 17 5/8 x 22 5/16" (44.7 x 56.7 cm) Medium: Lithograph
“An aquarium hangs from the ceiling. I light the aquarium with the light of a mercury lamp, and shine the shadows of the ripples in the water onto a white floor. In this way one has the impression that the floor is covered in water around twenty centimeters deep. Visitors can dip their feet into this imaginary water.
Water drips into the aquarium from a device above it. Sometimes the drops fall randomly like raindrops. Sometimes they fall around and around, like playing tag. Sometimes the drops fall all at once, and the ripples make geometrical patterns like flowers.”
