OSKAR MOLL

 

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SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah

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Oskar Moll (1875-1947) was a German Fauvist ʘ painter. He was a self taught artist, but later, as student had training, with Lovis Corinth, Walter Leistikow and Henri Matisse. He went to Paris in 1907, here, he became a founder of the ‘Académie Matisse in 1908'. In 1914, he became a member of the 'Free Secession in Berlin'. He became a professor at the Academy of Arts and Crafts, and its Director, until 1932. He then taught at the Dusseldorf Art Academy.

Moll is known for his landscapes, portraits and abstract compositions. His abstract compositions were geometric and with vivid and contrasting colours. He blended Impressionism and Cubism. The influence of Cubism is attributed to his sculptor and painter wife, Marg (Margarethe Haeffner).

Nazi government consistently persecuted him, by prohibiting his exhibition of Art works, and defaming as a 'degenerate artist'. Due to Nazi harassment, Moll turned to painting nudes to supplement the landscapes and still-lifes.

ʘ Fauvism, a short-lived art-style that flourished mainly in France, beginning of the 20^th C. The artist used pure, brilliant colours, straight from the tubes, to create a sense of an explosion on the canvas. Fauvist painted directly from nature, like the Impressionists (before them).

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