(c.1962)
“AA Parabel. Kinderaufwachsen”, signed, dated Otto 7.6.76, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 100 cm, framed, (K)

Compare:
Otto Muehl, Leben/Kunst/Werk/Aktion Utopie Malerei, MAK/published by Buchhandlung Walther König, 2004, page 212–217

Provenance:
Private Ownership, Italy

The first AA Kongress was held in 1976 and chosen members from the newly formed city groups as well as the Friedrichshof met and agreed on common international property, international free sexuality and shared work and production. The focus of the congress was the self-expressions, often going on through the night and developing into group expressions during this period. From this point onwards, the commune would call itself the AAO: Aktionsanalytische Organisation. An intensive phase of lecture tours through Europe and the USA followed, resulting in the formation of groups in Paris, Munich, Kiel, Hamburg, Bremen, Heidelberg, Krefeld, Frankfurt and even, for a while, Boston. There were an increasing number of audience brawls during the lecture tours, with radical left-wing groups for whom the AAO style appeared reactionary, storming the events. In 1976 Otto Muehl illustrated the development of the action analysis and self-expressions in the form of the AA Parabel, manifesting the group’s fundamental social rules in the AA Prinzipien...
Karl Iro Goldblatt, Die Kommune/Eine Chronologie – from the above literature.