Julius Mössel

Julius Mössel (born October 13, 1871 in Fürth ; † August 13, 1957 in Chicago ) was a German decorative and art painter who lived and worked in the United States after the First World War .

Life

Tea house (above) and marble hall (below), panel painting by Julius Mössel from 1912/13

First career in Germany

Mössel studied at the Königigl in the 1880s . School of Applied Arts in Nuremberg and from October 1889 at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts as a student of Professor Rudolf Seitz .

His workshop for decorative arts, which he founded in Munich in 1892 together with Konrad Schmidt, was so successful that another branch was founded in Nuremberg. Mössel often worked in buildings by the architect Max Littmann. His main work is the dome image, a constellation sky, in the Great House of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart. His paintings take into account the tectonically given space in their structure and the construction task in the motif.

Second career in the USA

Since his decorative painting was hardly in demand after the First World War, he emigrated to the USA in 1926, where he settled in Chicago. He worked with the architect Albert Kahn . He lost all of his fortune in the stock market crash in 1929. From 1932 on he switched to panel painting and created surrealistic and magically real pictures.

Works

The creators of the Munich Künstlerhaus and its jewelry, gallery balustrade in the ballroom from 1900

1900: Ceiling paintings of the arbor dome of the restaurant in the Munich Künstlerhaus on Lenbachplatz
1901: Ceiling and wall paintings in the auditorium, in the vestibules and in the garden hall of the Prinzregententheater , Munich
1905: Ceiling painting “Train of the Cranes” in the Bad Kissingen spa theater
1906: Painting of the auditorium and draft for the curtain in the Schillertheater in Berlin
1912: Dome image depicting a constellation sky in the Great House of the Royal Court Theater (today the Opera House of the Stuttgart State Theater )
1913: Ceiling painting in the Regentenbau Bad Kissingen , Orpheus, as well as green-silver ornament painting of the Green Hall in the Regentenbau
1913: Painting of the marble hall and production of the dome image of the tea house in Weißenburgpark , Stuttgart; commissioned by the entrepreneur and patron of culture Ernst von Sieglin
1921: Ceiling painting depicting a constellation sky in the administration building of Basalt AG in Linz am Rhein
1935–1939: Wall painting on canvas of the permanent exhibition The Story of Food Plants at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago

literature

Judith Breuer: Julius Mössel, decorative and art painter: 1871–1957 . To rediscover his work in southern Germany. In: Workbooks of the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 978-3-8062-1217-4 (with a contribution by Jill L. McKeever-Furst).
After the buffoon . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1982, pp. 275-277 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Julius Mössel - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Julius Mössel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ 00574 Ernst Julius Mössel. In: Matriculation database. Academy of Fine Arts Munich, October 14, 1889, accessed on December 20, 2014 .
^ ^A ^b Judith Breuer: The decoration and painter Julius Mössel (1871–1957). (PDF) Creator of the ceiling painting in the Great House of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg - news sheet of the State Monuments Office. Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg, 1984, pp. 134–142 , archived from the original on December 31, 2013 ; Retrieved October 5, 2016 .
^ Biography of the Artist. In: The Story of Food Plants. The Field Museum, accessed March 13, 2018 .
↑ Garden Hall. In: Prinzregententheater Munich. Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding , accessed on December 20, 2014 .
↑ Marble Hall in Weißenburgpark. Marmorsaal Veranstaltungs GmbH, accessed on December 20, 2014 : "Julius Mössel, one of the most sought-after decorative painters of that time"
↑ The tea house and its history. Teehaus im Weissenburgpark, accessed on December 20, 2014 .
^ Judith Breuer: Rediscovered: the painting of a constellation sky by Julius Mössel in Linz on the Rhine. (PDF) In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Wuerttemberg - newsletter of the state preservation of monuments. State Office for Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg , 2008, pp. 238–240 , archived from the original on November 3, 2013 ; accessed on March 22, 2017 .
^ The Mural Gallery. In: The Story of Food Plants. The Field Museum, accessed December 20, 2014 .

personal data
SURNAME	Mössel, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Moessel, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German decorative and art painter
DATE OF BIRTH	October 13, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fuerth
DATE OF DEATH	August 13, 1957
Place of death	Chicago

[MA-1] 00574 Ernst Julius Mössel. In: Matriculation database. Academy of Fine Arts Munich, October 14, 1889, accessed on December 20, 2014 .

[NDL_1984-2] A ^b Judith Breuer: The decoration and painter Julius Mössel (1871–1957). (PDF) Creator of the ceiling painting in the Great House of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg - news sheet of the State Monuments Office. Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Württemberg, 1984, pp. 134–142 , archived from the original on December 31, 2013 ; Retrieved October 5, 2016 .

[FM-3] Biography of the Artist. In: The Story of Food Plants. The Field Museum, accessed March 13, 2018 .

[Prinz-4] Garden Hall. In: Prinzregententheater Munich. Bavarian Theater Academy August Everding , accessed on December 20, 2014 .

[WBP_M-5] Marble Hall in Weißenburgpark. Marmorsaal Veranstaltungs GmbH, accessed on December 20, 2014 : "Julius Mössel, one of the most sought-after decorative painters of that time"

[WBP_T-6] The tea house and its history. Teehaus im Weissenburgpark, accessed on December 20, 2014 .

[bag-7] Judith Breuer: Rediscovered: the painting of a constellation sky by Julius Mössel in Linz on the Rhine. (PDF) In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Wuerttemberg - newsletter of the state preservation of monuments. State Office for Monument Preservation Baden-Württemberg , 2008, pp. 238–240 , archived from the original on November 3, 2013 ; accessed on March 22, 2017 .

[FM_G-8] The Mural Gallery. In: The Story of Food Plants. The Field Museum, accessed December 20, 2014 .