Carl Moser (artist)

Carl Moser (born January 27, 1873 in Bozen ; † July 23, 1939 there ) was an Austrian painter and graphic artist . Like all compatriots, Moser received Italian citizenship in 1919.

Life

Carl Moser was the son of the landscape painter Karl Vinzenz Moser . Animated by Franz Defregger , he took up an academy course in Munich in 1896 with Gabriel von Hackl , Ludwig Herterich and Karl Raupp . After graduating from the Academy in 1907, he studied at the Académie Julian in Paris . In 1902 he met Max Kurzweil , who encouraged him to deal with the color woodcut . Carl Moser united the color woodcut of his time like few European graphic artists in a synthesis of Japanese and European pictorial thought. A preferred source of motifs were the landscapes and people of Tyrol and Brittany .

Exhibitions

Carl Moser: Tyrolean Peasant Girl (1907)

• 1910: Solo exhibition in Vienna ( Galerie Miethke ).
• Venice Biennials 1922, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1932, 1936.
• 1923: Solo exhibition in Milan (Galleria Pesaro).
• 1967: Solo exhibition in Riva (Museo Civico).
• 1978: Solo exhibition in Innsbruck (gallery in the Taxispalais).

literature

• Wilfried Kirschl:  Moser, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 197 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Erich Egg :  Moser Karl d. J .. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7 , p. 388.
• Wilfried Kirschl : Carl Moser . (Catalog of works), Innsbruck 1989, ISBN 3-85218-051-1 .
• Carl Kraus : "Between the Times". Painting and graphics in Tyrol 1918–1945 . Lana 1999, pp. 52-54 and 279, ISBN 88-7073-274-6 .

Web links

Commons : Carl Moser  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Carl Moser in the catalog of the German National Library