Carl Moll

Carl Moll
Carl Moll (Ludwig Michalek, 1905)
Birth name	Carl Julius Rudolf Moll
Born	23 April 1861 Vienna, Austria
Died	13 April 1945 Vienna, Austria
Nationality	Austrian
Field	Painting
Movement	art nouveau

Carl Julius Rudolf Moll (23 April 1861 – 13 April 1945) was a prominent art nouveau painter active in Vienna at the start of the 20th century. He was also the stepfather of Alma Mahler-Werfel.

Life and career

Moll was born in Vienna, Austria. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He was a student of Christian Griepenkerl and of Emil Jakob Schindler (the father of Alma Mahler-Werfel née Schindler). After his teacher's death (1892), Moll married Schindler's widow, Anna (née von Bergen).

Moll was a founder-member of the Vienna Secession 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.

A Nazi sympathizer, he committed suicide at the end of World War II, in Vienna. There is a painting by Carl Moll in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest ("Winter Courtyard").

References

• O. Matulla: "Moll Karl". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 6, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7001-0128-7, p. 353.
• Edwin Lachnit. "Moll, Carl." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed January 9, 2012; subscription required).

External links

• Literature by and about Carl Moll in the German National Library catalogue
• Entry for Carl Moll on the Union List of Artist Names