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Lovis Corinth: Portrait of Margarethe Moll , 1907
The picture is in the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt .

Marg Moll (born August 2, 1884 in Mulhouse , Alsace as Margarethe Haeffner; † March 15, 1977 in Munich ) was a German sculptor , painter and author . Based on the realistic representation, her style evolved into abstraction .

education

The daughter of an officer began her artistic training at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main , where she became interested in sculpture at an early age. In the 1890s she was a student of Hans Völcker . In 1905 she took lessons from the painter Oskar Moll , whom she married a year later. The couple moved to Berlin together and worked in Lovis Corinth's studio , who made an oil painting of her in 1907. In addition, Marg Moll took anatomy courses at the Levin Funke School .

Matisse and his students at the Académie Matisse , Paris, 1909.

In 1907 the couple moved to Paris . There the two made friends with Henri Matisse . The artist couple was one of the key people who convinced Matisse of this and helped him to found his own academy, the so-called Académie Matisse . In her “Memories of Matisse”, she vividly described the work situation in the “Académie”. In Matisse's student studio, Marg Moll mainly worked on plastic works.

After the First World War , she and her husband moved to Wroclaw because Oskar Moll had accepted a position at the State Academy for Arts and Crafts in Wroclaw . The apartment there including a spacious studio was furnished with modern furniture by August Endell .

Artistic work

Marg Moll created "a highly varied sculptural work". She worked with the influences of the sculptors Alexander Archipenko , Constantin Brâncuși and Ossip Zadkine, who became known to her in Paris . In 1928 she worked again in Paris as a student of Fernand Léger . There she became a member of the Groupe in 1940 and exhibited together with Robert Delaunay and Albert Gleizes .

Her plastic and painterly oeuvre became more and more abstract. In 1932 the Breslau Academy was closed and the artist couple Moll first moved to Düsseldorf , where Oskar Moll had received a teaching position. After the political situation for artists of her kind had worsened, Marg wrote in her notebook in 1935: “It's getting uncomfortable in Düsseldorf. Oskar is considering emigrating to England, but we decided on Berlin. ”In Berlin, the couple had their architect friend Hans Scharoun build a house on Halensee. The building including an "impressive" collection of own and third-party works was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1943 . Moll's modern style was displeasing to the cultural dictators of the Nazi era . Marg Moll was therefore persecuted in Germany during the Nazi dictatorship and her sculptures were insulted as " degenerate ".

In 1943 the Molls had left Berlin because of the increasing bombardment and moved to Brieg in Silesia, where Oskar's parents owned a house.

After the Second World War and also after the death of her husband (1947) Marg Moll consistently developed her style further. 1947-1950 she held in Wales and met in London with Henry Moore together. In 1952 she first returned to Düsseldorf and went on lecture tours at home and abroad. Her work is characterized by reduced, linear bronzes and stained, expressive wooden sculptures.

tomb

Marg Moll died on March 15, 1977 in Munich; she was buried in Berlin in the Zehlendorf municipal cemetery . The joint with her husband was designated as an honor grave of the State of Berlin from 1987 to 2011 . The couple's daughter, Brigitte Würtz, was born in Breslau in 1918 and later also became a painter.

Moll's sculpture Dancer , which was confiscated for the Degenerate Art exhibition in 1937 and was considered lost, was found in Berlin during archaeological excavations that had been carried out since 2009 on Rathausstrasse opposite the Red City Hall in advance of underground construction work. It is certain that 15 exhibits were stored in a cellar depot at Königstrasse 50 near the town hall in August 1942 . The building was destroyed at the end of the Second World War and the depot remained undiscovered during the subsequent clearing operations.

Selected individual works

  • 1911: People sitting on the road
  • 1926: The dancer ,
    a 65 cm high cubist figure of a naked dancer in a recorded dance movement, cast in brass . After its completion, it was acquired by the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, exhibited and then stored in the local depot. For the art exhibition of the Nazis in Berlin, a commission appointed by Goebbels had confiscated all works of art that "insult the German feeling or destroy or mutilate the natural form or are characterized by a lack of appropriate craftsmanship or artistic ability", including the dancer . The works came to various museum depots. The dancer also traveled to Berlin with the propaganda exhibition in 1938. In 1941 the sculpture was used again as a prop in the propaganda film Venus in court . - After its rediscovery, it is now on display in the Neues Museum in Berlin . (see also: Berlin Sculpture Fund ).
  • 1928: Standing woman with jug , brass
  • 1930: black torso
  • 1953: Together (group of three)
  • 1956: torso
  • 1963: mourners , wood
  • 1965: couple , wood
  • 1967: family , wood

Honors

  • 1969 Awarded the Great Federal Order of Merit
  • 1970 Prize medal at the XVI. Art exhibition Cologne

Fonts

  • Memories of Matisse , in: Neue Deutsche Hefte, Heft 23, Gütersloh 1956, p. 853 f. Reprinted in: Exhibition catalog Matisse and his German students , Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern / Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg 1988, p. 41 ff.

literature

  • Exhibition catalog: The great inspiration. German artists in the Académie Matisse , part III, Kunst-Museum Ahlen 2004.
  • Gora Jain: Marg Moll - 'Contours' of the sculptural work , in: Exhibition catalog The great inspiration , Part I, Kunst-Museum Ahlen 1997, pp. 107–122.
  • Werner Filmer: Marg Moll - A German Sculptor , Dr. Hut, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-89963-952-0 ; New edition 2013: ISBN 978-1483937724 .
  • Geneviève Debien: Marg Moll. The internationally networked sculptor and graphic artist . In: Dagmar Schmengler u. a. (Ed.): Painter. Mentor. Magician. Otto Mueller and his network in Breslau, Heidelberg a. a .: Kehrer 2018. ISBN 978-3-86828-873-5 , pp. 188–196.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g Petra Ahne: Mom, they dug something up there. , Article in the Berliner Zeitung from 16./17. July 2011
  2. ^ Charlotte Berend-Corinth : Lovis Corinth: The paintings . Revised by Béatrice Hernad. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 1958, 1992; BC 340, p. 105. ISBN 3-7654-2566-4
  3. Cat. Ahlen
  4. Cat., Ahlen, p. 164
  5. ^ Precious works of art discovered at the Rotes Rathaus. , Berliner Morgenpost from November 8, 2010
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