Hans Moller (painter)

Hans Moller (b. Wuppertal, Germany 1905 - d. October 19, 2000 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) was a German-born American artist who worked mostly in an abstract format and is primarily considered to have been a colorist.

Biography

From 1919 until 1927, Moller was an instructor at the Kunstgewerbeschule Wuppertal-Barmen, an arts and crafts learning institution in the town in which he resided and also earned money as a bricklayer. Next he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin.

In 1936, he emigrated to the United States from Germany to protect his Jewish wife (whom he had married in 1933), Helen Rosenblum from the

Moller was known foremost as a colorist and once stated...“I only want to wake up every day and decide what colors to paint my sky.”.[2]

Ad Reinhardt included Moller in his 1946 work "How to Look at Modern Art in America".^[3][4]

Personal life

Moller and his wife were long time residents of Allentown. His wife Helen predeceased him in 1997. Hans Moller died in 2000. ^[5][6]

Legacy

Following Moller's death a retrospective of the painter's work was mounted at the Lore Degenstein Gallery at