# Hugo Mühlig artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1854-11-09
- Death date: 1929-02-16
- Nationality: German
- Movements: German Impressionism
- Common media: oil painting, watercolor

## About Hugo Mühlig

Hugo Mühlig (1854–1929), born Theodor Hugo Mühlig in Dresden, was a German painter and watercolorist associated with German Impressionism. After training in Dresden, he settled in Düsseldorf in 1881 and spent much of his career there, becoming part of the city's established painting tradition. Mühlig traveled and worked in the Netherlands between roughly 1899 and 1919, including time in Scheveningen around 1909, where he produced coastal scenes that complement his broader landscape and genre practice. His work spans oil paintings and watercolors of rural landscapes, everyday genre subjects, and lively beach and coastal views. With over 340 works documented in auction records, Mühlig's paintings appear regularly in the European art market and are held in institutional collections catalogued by the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD).

## Common works and media

Mühlig's most commonly encountered works are oil paintings and watercolors of landscapes, genre scenes, and coastal or beach views. Typical subjects include rural Dutch and German countryside settings, figures in open-air market or village scenes, and beach panoramas with figures along the North Sea coast. Works are most often found as paintings on canvas or panel and watercolors on paper, generally signed and sometimes dated.

## Market and appraisal context

Hugo Mühlig's work appears with reasonable frequency at European auctions, particularly in Germany and the Netherlands. Key factors that affect valuation include the medium (oil on canvas works generally command stronger results than works on paper), the subject (Dutch coastal and beach scenes are especially sought after), the painting's size and condition, and the completeness of its provenance. Because no published catalogue raisonné was identified, collectors and appraisers should exercise care with attribution and seek expert verification for unsigned or undocumented works.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine structured identity research from library-authority and museum sources with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For Hugo Mühlig, this page draws on authority records from the Getty Union List of Artist Names, VIAF, the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, and Wikidata, alongside the Appraisily/Invaluable auction database of 343 documented works.

## Sources

- RKD — Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/58121
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1635467
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500029724
- VIAF (OCLC): https://viaf.org/viaf/42641366/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_M%C3%BChlig
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr95001815