Lucas Kilian after Frans Hals - portrait of the calligrapher Arnold Moller with an example of his work

Arnold Möller (4 May 1581 – 14 October 1655), was a German calligrapher.

Biography

Möller was a 17th-century German writing and arithmetic teacher who worked as a

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. His publications were still reissued in the 18th century. He was trained in the Netherlands, possibly by Jan van de Velde the Elder in Haarlem, since his portrait was painted by the Haarlem artist

Frans Hals Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group ...

. Möller is remembered today for his calligraphy and

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puzzles left in the

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, where he is buried. His numerous works are in the Archives of the

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of Lübeck and the city library.

References

* Antjekathrin Graßmann (Ed.): ''Lübeckische Geschichte.'' Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1989, * Antjekathrin Graßmann: "Arnold Möller." In: ''Lübecker Lebensläufe'', Neumünster 1993, * {{DEFAULTSORT:Moller, Arnold 1581 births 1655 deaths German calligraphers 17th-century German mathematicians People from Lübeck Frans Hals