Oskar Erhard Silvius Moll

In the course of his 50-year career as an artist, Oskar Moll made some 800 paintings, water-colours, drawings and lithographs. The Nazi dictatorship probably decimated his œuvre to around 600 works...

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Biography

1875 Born in Brieg/Silesia (Brzeg/Poland), near Breslau (Wrocław) on 21 July

1893 Studied biology in Hanover, Geneva and Basel

1897 Settled in Berlin-Charlottenburg

1900 Met Lovis Corinth, and spent three years as assistant in his studio

1906 Married his pupil Margarethe Haeffner, painter and sculptress

1907/08 Joined the artists' circle in the Café du Dôme in Paris; co-founded the "Académie Matisse"

from 1911 Rented an apartment with studio in Berlin-Grunewald, with furniture made to designs by the Jugendstil artist August Endell

1914 Member of the "Free Secession" in Berlin (1916 board member)

1918 Appointed professor at the Breslau Academy of Art and Applied Arts

1919 Board member of the Kunstkammer [art collection] and vice-chairman of the Silesian Artists' Alliance in Breslau

1923 Built a summer residence in Fürstenfeldbruck, near Munich

1925 Deputy for August Endell (who had fallen ill) as director of the Breslau Academy of Art

1926 Appointed director of the Breslau Academy of Art

1929 As a member of the honorary committee, supported the Breslau Werkbund-Ausstellung [Work Federation Exhibition]

1932 Breslau Academy closed in compliance with an "emergency decree" issued by Chancellor Heinrich Brüning Appointed by Professor Walter Kaesbach to the Düsseldorf Academy of Art. Participated in the founding of the artists' group "Selektion", with artists including Max Beckmann, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Georg Muche (prohibited by the National Socialists in 1933)

1933 April – dismissed by the National Socialists from the Düsseldorf Academy of Art

1935 Exhibition at the Düsseldorf Kunstverein to mark Oskar Moll's 60th birthday closed by the National Socialists

1936 Moved to Berlin-Grunewald, into a house with studio, designed by Hans Scharoun

1937 Thirty-three works by Moll (paintings, watercolours, lithographies) confiscated from museums. Works by Moll included in the „degenerate art” exhibitions in Munich (1937), Düsseldorf (1938), Berlin (1938/39) and Weimar (1939)

1943 Moved to Brieg/Silesia after first air attacks on Berlin in December

1944 House with studio in Berlin-Grunewald destroyed; art collection and inventory lost

1945 Fled to Altenweddingen, near Magdeburg, after evacuation of Brieg

1946 Moved to Berlin-Zehlendorf

1947 Died in Berlin on 19 August; buried in the Berlin-Zehlendorf cemetery

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