Oskar Moll

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Oskar Moll (21 July 1875,

Biography

Moll initially studied biology in Switzerland, but also taught himself how to paint and decided to pursue art as a career instead. After some time in Munich, he went to Berlin, where he became an assistant in the studios of Lovis Corinth. In 1906, he married the sculptor and painter, Margarethe Haeffner. The following year, they went to Paris, where he made the acquaintance of Henri Matisse and became an habitué of Le Dôme Café. As a result, he, Margarethe and their friend Hans Purrmann participated in creating the short-lived Académie Matisse. During the war, he lived in Berlin and was among the first members of the November Group. He was also a member of the Free Secession.

In 1918, he became a professor at the

In 1936, he and Margarethe had settled into a reclusive life in Berlin, but their home and studio, along with numerous paintings, some by Matisse and

Recently, the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie [de] has begun a research project devoted to his works.

Selected paintings

• 
  Rocks by a Brook
• 
  Cat with a House Plant
• 
  Southern Landscape with Factory
• 
  Nude with a Fan,
  Amid the Leaves
• 
  Brigitte (his daughter)
  in a Red Dress

References

Further reading

• Gerhard Leistner: Oskar Moll als Impulsgeber für die Moderne an der Breslauer Akademie. In: Dagmar Schmengler u. a. (Hrsg.): Maler. Mentor. Magier. Otto Mueller und sein Netzwerk in Breslau. Kehrer, Heidelberg u. a. 2018,
  ISBN 978-3-86828-873-5
  , S. 178–187.
• Siegfried Salzmann (1994), "Moll, Oskar", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 17, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 739–740; (full text online)
• Ernst Scheyer: Die Kunstakademie Breslau und Oskar Moll. Holzner, Würzburg 1961.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oskar Moll.

• Literature by and about Oskar Moll in the German National Library catalogue
• Oskar Moll Projekt, Homepage
• Oskar Moll, Homepage of the website by his daughter, Brigitte Würtz
• More works by Moll @ ArtNet