The Austrian painter Oskar Mulley was born in Klagenfurt on April 22, 1891. He developed an interest in art when he was a little boy and made drawings that showed his great talent. In 1909 the eighteen year old attended the Municipal Vocational School in Munich for a year. From 1910 to 1913 he studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts under Alois Delug and Rudolf Jettmar. Initially Oskar Mulley was active as theater painter in Vienna. From 1918 to 1934 he was living in Kufstein, Tyrol, where he developed great mastery in mountain landscape painting. As of the mid 1920s Oskar Mulley made pictures of lonely alpine farmsteads and mountain landscapes, usually without any figures and in scant impression, however, executed in impressive monumentality and with topographic accuracy.
As of 1934 Oskar Mulley made Garmisch-Partenkirchen his home. His technique began to change, the broad and powerful color application gave way to a softer brushstroke. Mountain landscapes, however, remained his preferred motifs. Today Oskar Mulley‘s works are in possession of numerous public collections and museums, among them the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, the Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck or the Gemeentemuseum at The Hague.
Oskar Mulley died in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1949.