Adolf Möller (painter)

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Adolf Möller (born March 11, 1866 in Uetersen ; † March 1, 1943 in Tremsbüttel-Sattenfelde ) near Bargteheide was a German painter, decorative painter and illustrator .

Life

He was the cousin and close childhood friend of the painter Otto Schmarje (1868–1920) and later grew up in Flensburg. In 1883 Möller began an apprenticeship as a xylograph at the Hamburg Correspondents , which he gave up after four weeks to begin a three-year apprenticeship as a painter. from 1886 to 1888 he studied at the art and learning schools in Leipzig and Munich and then studied in Berlin. From 1893 he worked as a decorative painter in Otto Schmarje's company and in the same year married his cousin, the weaver Berta Schmarje, and moved into an apartment at Behnstrasse 20 in Altona. This marriage resulted in four children, the later ceramist Siegfried Möller (1896–1970), the weavers Anne and Margarethe and the goldsmith Ilse Möller.

In 1907 Möller received the 1st prize of the Berlin Association for Welfare Brands for his submitted illustrations for welfare stamps. He was a founding member of the Altona artist association founded in 1909 . In 1911 and 1912, much-noticed exhibitions with his pictures and drawings in the Altona Museum and in Donner-Schoss followed .

Adolf Möller also painted watercolors and illustrations for various children's books. In 1914 he painted postcards for the German Horticultural Exhibition, which took place in Altona on the occasion of the city's 250th anniversary. However, this was overshadowed by the outbreak of the First World War . After the First World War he and his wife moved to Küpfermühle near Bad Oldesloe and later moved to Tremsbüttel-Sattenfeld, where he died.

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SURNAME Möller, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Uetersen
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1943
Place of death Tremsbüttel-Sattenfelde