Moll, Carl (1861 Vienna - 1945 ibid.)

Lot 2503 limit € 2.400

Oil/panel, still life with bowl, naturalistic fine depiction with forget-me-not flowers in a rural ceramic bowl, potted plant (fuchsia), vase and amphibian (tree frog) on wooden table, signed C. Moll lower right, dated 1883 and place name Goisern, wooden panel packaged and expertly restored. , profiled wood frame, approx. 52 x 35 cm, with frame approx. 67.5 x 48 cm, the painting on offer is one of the artist's early works from a private collection in Saxony, the dating and location provide the certainty that it was in Bad Goisern on Lake Hallstatt was created, the artist lived there with his teacher and mentor Emil Jakob Schindler, during these years Moll regularly met Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Maria Olbrich in his teacher's house, the art world in Austria and Germany turned to Moll early on attentive, in 1897 he was one of the co-founders of the Vienna Secession and in 1903, at Moll's instigation, the Modern Gallery (today Österreichische Gallery Belvedere)