Carl Julius Rudolf Moll (23 April 1861 – 13 April 1945) was a prominent art nouveau painter active in

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at the start of the 20th century. He was one of the artists of the

Vienna Secession The Vienna Secession (german: Wiener Secession; also known as ''the Union of Austrian Artists'', or ''Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs'') is an art movement, closely related to Art Nouveau, that was formed in 1897 by a group of Austr ...

who took inspiration from the

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techniques of French

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.Edwin Lachnit. "Moll, Carl." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 25 Feb. 2016 He was an early supporter of the Nazis and committed suicide as Soviet forces approached Vienna at the end of World War II.

Life and career

Moll was born in Vienna, Austria. He studied art at the

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) is a public art school in Vienna, Austria. History The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was founded in 1692 as a private academy modelled on the Accademia di Sa ...

. He was a student of

Christian Griepenkerl Christian Griepenkerl (17 March 1839 – 22 March 1916) was a German painter and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Biography Griepenkerl was born to one of Oldenburg's leading families. As a young man, he heeded the advice of his ...

and of

Emil Jakob Schindler Emil Jakob Schindler (27 April 1842 – 9 August 1892) was an Austrian landscape painter. His eldest daughter was the author and composer, Alma Mahler. Life He was born to a family of cotton spinning-mill operators that had been established in ...

(the father of

Alma Mahler-Werfel Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel (born Alma Margaretha Maria Schindler; 31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964) was an Austrian composer, author, editor, and socialite. At 15, she was mentored by Max Burckhard. Musically active from her early year ...

''née'' Schindler). After his teacher's 1892 death, Moll married Schindler's widow, Anna (''née'' von Bergen); they had been lovers for some time. Moll was a founder-member of the

in 1897 and, in 1903 encouraged the use of the Belvedere Gallery to show exhibitions of modern Austrian art. In 1905 he, along with Gustav Klimt, left the Secession, although Moll continued to be involved with the exhibition of art in Vienna including the first exhibition in Vienna of the work of

Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, inc ...

(the second painting above the

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in his 1906 self-portrait is Van Gogh's '' Portrait of the Artist's Mother''). His paintings are characterized by the use of pointillist techniques within a strict organization of the surface of the painting. He committed suicide by poison at the end of World War II, in Vienna, along with his daughter Maria and son-in-law Richard Eberstaller, a Viennese lawyer. All three had been early Nazi Party supporters.

Auction records

On 21 June 2013, the online auction house Auctionata in

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sold Moll's ''Villa in Vienna'' for 240,000 Euros. Previously a smaller painting, a still-life entitled ''Speisezimmer I'', from the Rau collection fetched 286,700 Euros at Lempertz, a world-record price for the artist. The Viennese auction house

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sold his

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

"Blick auf Nussdorf und Heiligenstadt in der Dämmerung" for 228,839 Euros on 27 November 2007. In 2018, the

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acquired the 1901 work ''At the Lunch Table'', previously thought to have been lost in the 1930s. It had been owned by Siegmund Isaias Zollschan of Vienna, who was murdered in the Holocaust; he had sent it to a relative in Canada for safekeeping before the war, where it remained in family hands until acquired by the gallery. In 2021, Freeman's Auctioneers & Appraisers in Philadelphia, USA sold Moll's "Weißes Interieur (White Interior)" for $4,756,000. This rediscovered masterpiece was Freeman's highest selling lot to date, surpassing the house's 2011 record of $3.1m achieved by an important Imperial white jade seal from the Qianlong period.

References

Bibliography

* * Edwin Lachnit.
Moll, Carl.
In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed January 9, 2012; subscription required). * Tobias G. Natter, Gerbert Frodl (eds.): "Carl Moll. 1861-1945. Maler und Organisator", Vienna 1998, .

External links

*
Entry for Carl Moll
on the

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Biography, Literature and Works by Carl Moll

''Carl Moll: Catalogue Raisonné and Monograph
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