Rudolf Möller (artist)

Rudolf Möller (* 1881 in Schmiedefeld , † 1967 in Lörrach ) was a German painter , graphic artist and drawing teacher .

Live and act

Rudolf Möller completed an apprenticeship as a drawing teacher at the Royal Art School in Berlin from 1905 to 1907 together with his brother Otto Möller . He was a student of Lovis Corinth . From 1916 Möller was a drawing teacher at a Berlin high school, and later he was a teacher for painting and art literature. In 1919 he became a member of the November Group, to which he belonged until its dissolution in 1935. As part of the November group, he was also involved in exhibitions. In 1925 his watercolor farm (image size 15.9 × 25.4 cm) was bought by the Prussian Ministry of Culture at an exhibition of the Novembergruppe (for 120 M) and sent to the Berlin National Gallery under inventory no. F III 768 (No. 1) transferred. It was confiscated on July 7, 1937 and taken to Munich for the “ Degenerate Art ” exhibition . It is considered destroyed.

During the time of National Socialism , his works were considered degenerate art . Despite his position in the school service, Möller was not a member of the NSDAP , which put him under strong political pressure. In 1940 he went to Dresden . In 1943 he was released from school prematurely and expelled from Dresden. He moved to Steinen im Wiesental , although he had to leave almost all of his pictures behind in Dresden.

Rudolf Möller was a member of the German Association of Artists . He had been married since 1916, his wife died in 1944. He moved to Lörrach in 1945, where he lived after the war and until his death.

Afterlife

Möller is one of the so-called lost generation artists who have only been rediscovered in recent years. His works are assigned to expressive realism . Occasionally, works by the artist are offered in auction shops.

Exhibitions

• 1916: Participation in a painting exhibition in the JB Neumann Gallery , Berlin
• 2008: Rediscovered: Franz Baum, Heinrich Heidner, Rudolf Möller , Kallmann Museum in the Orangery Ismaning
• 2008: Expressive Realism , group exhibition at the Bernd Dürr gallery in Munich
• 2009: Rudolf Möller - Expressionist of the "Lost Generation" , Museum am Burghof in Lörrach

literature

• Helga Kliemann: The November Group , German Society for Fine Art eV Berlin, 1969, p. 119
• Jules Rosenberg: Rudolf Möller. November group . (General catalog)
• Detlef Lorenz: Traces of Artists in Berlin from the Baroque to Today , Reimer, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-4960-1268-9
• Annegret Janda and others: Art in Germany 1905-1937: The lost collection of the National Gallery in the former Kronprinzen-Palais , Mann, Berlin, 1992. ISBN 978-3-7861-1587-8

Web links

• Rudolf Möller (artist) at artfacts.net
• Information about Rudolf Möller on the artist database www.kunst-und-kultur.de
• Information about Rudolf Möller and the artists of the lost generation on www.verschollene-generation.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Annual report of the Royal Art School, Berlin Art Library
2. ↑ Database "Degenerate Art"
3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Möller, Rudolf ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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) 
4. ↑ See information about the artists of the lost generation on www.verschollene-generation.de (see web links)
5. ↑ Internet site of artnet.de
6. ↑ Late appreciation for artists , article in Südkurier of March 3, 2009 (accessed on July 29, 2009).