Louis Moilliet

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Louis Moilliet (born October 6, 1880 in Bern , † August 24, 1962 in Vevey ) was a Swiss artist, known as a painter and glass painter . His expressionist style of painting was associated with the Orphism movement .

Life

childhood and education

Born the son of a career officer, Moilliet met Paul Klee during his school days . After graduating from high school , he began training as a decorative painter in 1898 and attended the trade school from 1900. After a stay in the Worpswede artists' colony , where he met Fritz Mackensen and Paula Modersohn-Becker , he continued his studies in Düsseldorf and Weimar and returned to Bern in 1903, where he worked with Klee. In 1904, on the recommendation of the sculptor Hermann Haller, he was accepted into the master class of Leopold von Kalckreuth at the Stuttgart Academy .

First study trips

After a study trip to Rome in 1907, Moilliet's first trip to Tunisia followed in 1908 . He returned to Bern and met August Macke in 1909 , with whom he had a close friendship and artistic relationship until his death in 1914. Between 1909 and 1910 he visited Tunisia again. In 1910 Moilliet married the pianist Hélène Gobat; they moved to Lake Thun for a few years .

Acquaintance with the painters of the Blue Rider

In October 1911 he visited Klee in Munich, met Macke again and also got to know the painters of the Blue Rider , Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc . During this time, Fauvist pictures emerged. First important exhibition participations in Cologne, Munich and Berlin in the Sturm-Galerie followed. Moilliet received decisive impulses from Macke; this also imparted the teaching of Robert Delaunay to him .

Tunis trip with Klee and Macke

On April 5, 1914, Moilliet set out with Paul Klee and August Macke on the legendary Tunis trip , during which they inspired each other with their watercolor painting . They painted together in the port of Tunis , in Saint Germain (الزهراء, Ezzahra) in the country house of Dr. Ernst and Rosa Jäggi-Müller, a Swiss couple who are friends with Moilliet, in Hammamet , Sidi Bou Saïd and Kairouan . Also in 1914 he created the oil painting Circus , which is regarded as his main work and is exhibited in the Kunstmuseum Basel .

Encounter with Hermann Hesse

In 1916 Moilliet's wife died shortly after the birth of their first son, Pierre. In the summer of 1920 he visited Hermann Hesse in Ticino , whom he served as a model for the painter Louis in Klingsor's last summer and for whom he illustrated texts. Between 1919 and 1921 he again toured Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. During this time a large group of watercolors was created.

Watercolor painting and stained glass

Sgraffito, Schosshaldenfriedhof in Bern

On November 5, 1921, Moilliet's second son Peter was born from the marriage with Margaretha Zaeslin; the marriage was dissolved in 1930. In 1923 Moilliet painted his last oil painting, subsequently he concentrated on watercolor painting. He received orders for glass windows on Brückfeldstrasse in Bern, in the church of Bremgarten near Bern and glass windows in Lucerne. Since this commission for the windows of the Lukaskirche Lucerne, which Moilliet created between 1934 and 1936, glass painting became the preferred work of the later creative period. From 1936 onwards, he did not paint any new watercolors, but rather revised works that were created earlier. A year later he met Kay Oederlin, his partner for the past twenty-five years. This was followed by orders for a sgraffito in the Schosshaldenfriedhof in Bern, glass windows in Winterthur and the chapel of the Burgerspital in Bern.

From 1950 Moilliet lived in La Tour-de-Peilz, a suburb of Vevey, where he died in 1962 at the age of 82.

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SURNAME Moilliet, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1962
Place of death Vevey