Hugo Möhl

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Hugo Möhl (born June 30, 1893 in Düsseldorf , † February 23, 1974 in Wittlich ) was a German painter .

Life and education

Hugo Möhl first decided to study architecture in Elberfeld-Barmen (now part of Wuppertal ) and then attended the arts and crafts schools in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt before continuing his art studies at the State University of Fine Arts in Berlin (now Berlin University of the Arts ). He went on numerous study trips to the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and France and produced “representative cityscapes” of Berlin, Dresden and Salzburg, for example, which an art publisher in Munich bought.

As an artist

After the war, Möhl first returned to Düsseldorf in 1951, then moved to Üxheim, a local community in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, and later lived in Wittlich. There he lived with his second wife Annemarie.

Hugo Möhl was a very productive painter and left behind not only hundreds of drawings, but also numerous oil paintings. He participated in art exhibitions and sold paintings to ministries, private galleries and foreign collectors. Mostly these were views from the Eifel , such as from: Berndorf, Gerolstein, Hetzerath , Münstereifel, Prüm and Üxheim. But there were also many pictures of the Moselle , including: Enkirch , Neumagen, Schweich, Trittenheim and Zell . There were also pictures from Düsseldorf, Cologne , Trier, Würzburg, Munich, but also from abroad such as Tallinn, Rome and Venice.

Möhl developed a stylistic and artistic diversity and painted both realistic and abstract pictures, for example in a cubist style .

Works

  • Drawing by Hugo Möhl, 1967, Enkirch Oberdorf

  • Drawing by Hugo Möhl, 1950, Berlin Marshall House , exhibition grounds

  • Hugo Möhl, drawing from 1967, historic half-timbered house at the "Viehpforte"

Pension contract with the city of Wittlich

In 1973 Möhl signed a pension contract with the city of Wittlich to secure his old age and that of his younger wife. In return, he bequeathed his extensive collection of paintings and other personal items to the city. He and his wife received free living and a pension, the amount of which the city did not comment on. Möhl died on February 23, 1974, his wife twelve years later. In 2014, 40 years after Hugo Möhl's death, the city of Wittlich auctioned part of the collection, which was housed in depots in the town hall and in the old synagogue. From March 15 to 20, 2019, the cultural office of the city of Wittlich held another large auction with over 800 items from Möhl's estate such as furniture, paintings and drawings by Hugo Möhl, porcelain, glasses and jewelry in the Synagoge cultural and conference center Wittlich through.

literature

  • Article by Gustav Nießen on the 100th birthday 1893–1993 by painter Hugo Möhl, in: Yearbook 1993 of the Bernkastel-Wittlich district

Web links

Article in the Trierisches Volksfreund

Cultural Office of the City of Wittlich

Eifel and art (example of an exhibition with the participation of Hugo Möhl)

personal data
SURNAME Möhl, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1974
Place of death Wittlich