Oskar Moll

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Oskar and Marg Moll (around 1906)

Oskar Moll (born July 21, 1875 in Brieg , Silesia , † August 19, 1947 in Berlin ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Oskar Moll studied in Munich and Berlin, including with Lovis Corinth, and went to Paris in 1907 , where he met the painter Henri Matisse . Oskar Moll was married to the sculptor and painter Marg Moll since 1906 . Together with Hans Purrmann , his wife Marg and others, he founded the Académie Matisse in 1908 , which lasted until 1911.

Brigitte with a red dress (1934)

In 1918 he was first professor at the State Academy of Arts and Crafts in Breslau , from 1925 until its closure in 1932 he was its director. He then went to the Dusseldorf Art Academy , but was after the seizure of power of the Nazis in 1933 as "degenerate artist" vilified and dismissed. In 1937, 35 of his works were confiscated and he was defamed again in the Nazi exhibition Degenerate Art that same year . Oskar Moll was a member of the German Association of Artists .

In his pictures, Moll combined linear structures with colored surfaces and thus created abstract and lyrical depictions of landscapes, still lifes and portraits. The pictures are enlivened by high-contrast color accents and ornamental motifs.

tomb

Moll is buried with his wife in the Zehlendorf cemetery. The grave was designated as an honor grave of the city of Berlin from 1987 to 2011 .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1920: Dresden, Galerie Ernst Arnold (catalog)
  • 1925: Breslau, Society of Friends of Art - anniversary exhibition (catalog)
  • 1946: Berlin, Haus am Waldsee - with Willy Jaeckel (catalog)
  • 1948: Duisburg, Municipal Art Museum - memorial exhibition (catalog)
  • 1950: Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall - with further stations (catalog)
  • 1960: New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries (catalog)
  • 1966: Bad Godesberg / Bonn, Galerie Pro / Bahnhof Rolandseck (exhibition of the estate without catalog)
  • 1967: Duisburg, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum - memorial exhibition (catalog)
  • 1975: Trier, City Museum, Simeonstift - memorial exhibition (catalog)
  • 1982: Berlin, Haus am Lützowplatz (catalog)
  • 1997: Mainz, Landesmuseum u. a. - last major retrospective (catalog)

Literature (selection)

  • Heinz Braune-Krickau: Oskar Moll. With an autobiography of the artist; Leipzig 1921
  • Ernst Scheyer : The Breslau Art Academy and Oskar Moll . Wuerzburg 1961
  • Siegfried and Dorothea Salzmann: Oskar Moll. Life and work; Munich 1975 (first incomplete catalog of works) ISBN 3-7654-1545-6
  • The great inspiration. German artists in the Académie Matisse, Part I: Hans Purrmann, Oskar and Marg Moll, William Straube; Exhibition cat. Ahlen, Art Museum 9.3. - May 19, 1997; Bönen 1997 ISBN 3-925608-38-9
  • Oskar Moll 1875-1947. On the 50th anniversary of death. Paintings and watercolors; Exhibition cat. Mainz, State Museum 11/16/1997 - 02/15/1998 a. a .; Cologne 1997 (with numerous additional articles) ISBN 3-932310-03-9
  • From Otto Mueller to Oskar Schlemmer. Artist from the Wroclaw Academy; Exhibition cat. Schwerin, State Museum 11.5. - 11.8.2002, Regensburg, Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie 1.9. - 27.10.2002 a. a .; Hamburg 2002 ISBN 3-86106-076-0
  • The great inspiration. German artists in the Académie Matisse, Part III; Exhibition cat. Ahlen, Art Museum November 21, 2004 - February 13, 2005; Bramsche 2004 ISBN 3-89946-041-3
  • Gerhard Leistner: The color symphonist Oskar Moll, in: Weltkunst. The magazine for art and antiques vol. 77, issue 8, Munich 2007, pp. 28–31
  • Gerhard Leistner: Oskar Moll as a catalyst for modernism at the Breslau Academy. In: Dagmar Schmengler et al. (Ed.): Maler Mentor Magier. Otto Mueller and his network in Breslau; Heidelberg et al. 2018, pp. 178-187 ISBN 978-3-86828-873-5
  • Inspiration Matisse; Exhibition cat. Mannheim, Kunsthalle September 27, 2019 - January 19, 2020; Munich u. a. 2019 ISBN 978-3-89165-237-4

Web links

Commons : Oskar Moll  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 415.
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Moll, Oskar ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 18, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
personal data
SURNAME Minor, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Brzeg , District of Brzeg , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1947
Place of death Berlin