tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post2907627305592765825..comments2024-03-14T03:16:11.165-07:00Comments on THE BLUE LANTERN: Problematic Carl MollJane Librizzihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03943563452168571716noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-45174712931171919682015-05-15T08:59:13.507-07:002015-05-15T08:59:13.507-07:00I think some people just live too long and by the ...I think some people just live too long and by the time they bow out they are way of course.PhotoNicholashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03645480178783756115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-21412073468331010562015-01-19T06:40:09.673-08:002015-01-19T06:40:09.673-08:00Josephine, welcome and thank you for your comments...Josephine, welcome and thank you for your comments. Moll's art was very fine. It is well documented in Moll's own words that he refused to help fellow artist Oskar Kokoshka when Kokoshka was targeted by the Nazis for his "degenerate" art. Worse yet, Moll was an enthusiastic Nazi supporter who committed suicide along with his daughter and son-in-law in 1945 when the Nazis were defeated. Moll the person has damaged the reputation of Moll the artist. "Fashionable" doesn't begin to excuse his behavior.Janehttp://www.thebluelantern.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-21654624580205829012015-01-18T20:27:12.564-08:002015-01-18T20:27:12.564-08:00I am sure Carl Moll was a by-product of the times....I am sure Carl Moll was a by-product of the times. It was fashionable and generally commonplace in artistic circles to be anti-Semite but I wouldn't put him in the same category as others. Carl may not have been enthusiastic about Mahler initially but he genuinely loved and respected him to the end. Regardless, his art is beautiful.Josephushttp://www.google.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-71319055270806991822013-03-15T06:28:39.871-07:002013-03-15T06:28:39.871-07:00Anna, thank you. Moll's art is worth another l...Anna, thank you. Moll's art is worth another look and his character flaws provide an opportunity to confront the relationship between the individual freedom artists claim for themselves and its tenuous connection to what they - and we - do in the wider world.Janehttp://www.thebluelantern.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-31635026764092442102013-03-15T05:36:11.975-07:002013-03-15T05:36:11.975-07:00I am an Austrian but have lived in England for for...I am an Austrian but have lived in England for forty years. I have only recently come across Moll's work when searching for re-prints of Austrian winter landscapes. I purchased a reprint of " Die Hohewarte im Schnee", which seems the only reprint available in this country. I just love the whole painting, but in particular the park bench which the familiar iron arm rests which I remember so well from my childhood.I now want to see more of this artist and will look out for it next time I am in Vienna.annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13843381650576450177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-36855281980565381402012-10-07T06:16:38.131-07:002012-10-07T06:16:38.131-07:00My Jewish grandmother had two Molls, and knew the ...My Jewish grandmother had two Molls, and knew the family. It was part of our family history that Moll himself, or his family before him, were converted Jews (or crypto Jews), and that his support of Hitler was some combination of cultural self-hatred, distancing, camouflage, self-deception. Also, that the suicides were due not to the anticipated loss of power or imprisonment, but to the horror of the exposure of the concentration camps. <br /><br />Given that my father met Alma Mahler when he was a child of 5, and my grandmother's friends, both in Vienna, then New York, then Los Angeles included many people from the art world (Bauhaus-linked, mostly Jewish), perhaps this has some credence? The existence of Crypto-Jews in Spain, dating back to the inquisition, is well-documented; less so, that there were many Austro-Hungarian Jews who "passed." <br /><br /> I would be glad to send a picture of one of the two Moll's, if anyone is curious. It is a parkland scene, the style from the 1920's (flatter planes of light--and of paint--hints of Van Gogh influence). JFS_1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-13987691901094966582012-04-15T11:10:46.805-07:002012-04-15T11:10:46.805-07:00Anonymous, I agree that a Carl Moll exhibition is...Anonymous, I agree that a Carl Moll exhibition is long overdue. You make the best case for Moll, the person, which I think is way too charitable toward his personal failings. The art deserves to be seen, and if it makes us uncomfortable to contemplate his art and his actions together, then all the more reason to do it.Janehttp://www.thebluelantern.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-79381593839763937432012-04-15T06:58:47.482-07:002012-04-15T06:58:47.482-07:00Moll was a great figure in Austrian art, his paint...Moll was a great figure in Austrian art, his paintings were considered equivalent to those of Klimt and they were displayed at the major exhibits side by side. Although a major organizer and dealer of then contemporary art and a respected painter he remained modest. His non-resistance to the political madness of the dark period of Austria must be separated from his quality as the magnificent artist he was. A retrospective comprehensive exhibit would a most necessary tribute to a great artist and is over-due.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-8367065778644751622011-02-08T14:11:03.990-08:002011-02-08T14:11:03.990-08:00This is Bernhard (anonymus) from Today, i will try...This is Bernhard (anonymus) from Today, i will try to organize an Exhibition in the moma ny or Metropoliten withein The Next two Years, its good to Know that there is such a Request for Moll in The States. Even in Vienna you can hardly see his work, except in the Leopold Museum or Upper Belvedere. To get new undiscouvered paintings is pretty hard, even in Austria, but i dry hard, his Oeuvre from 1900 onwards is estimated for more than 900 paintings. With all collectors and owners i spoke, i was said that they don't want to sell due to their Beauty, so pretty few are known or described in Books or The net. Greetings from Vienna. BernhardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-43567809280619460072011-02-08T10:38:16.331-08:002011-02-08T10:38:16.331-08:00Anonymous, perhaps with the 100th anniversary of M...Anonymous, perhaps with the 100th anniversary of Mahler this year, some attention will be paid to others in his circle. Moll's works deserve more attention.Janehttp://www.thebluelantern.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-7707860413655756522011-02-08T08:14:09.345-08:002011-02-08T08:14:09.345-08:00Dear all, Carl Moll is still not in the area means...Dear all, Carl Moll is still not in the area means olymp where he belongs to, due to the fact that his late history means 38-45 was influenced by the political circumstances. He is defenitely one of the greatest Artists we ever had in Austria, even though not that inconvenient as Gustav Klimt, but today a classical artist, what will be named as classical modernism nowadays. I collect only his paintings because they are the final destination of an artistic development. I love his strong colours and uniqueness of his way painting light.<br />Natural light is live and live is beautiful as his paintingsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-42128036680786370872011-01-11T07:10:37.739-08:002011-01-11T07:10:37.739-08:00Greetings to you, Laura, from New York! An aspect...Greetings to you, Laura, from New York! An aspect of Moll's work that interests me is how he was aware of Impressionism but took what he could use from it without copying.Janehttp://www.thebluelantern.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-22001582447665488802011-01-11T00:39:16.808-08:002011-01-11T00:39:16.808-08:00Love Carl Moll, love this post!
thank you very mu...Love Carl Moll, love this post!<br /><br />thank you very much for posted this beautifull, powerfull artist<br /><br />greetings from Vienna<br /><br />Laura Tedeschinouvelles couleurs - vienna atelierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05136437257114318426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-55290384703527246552010-11-23T10:44:25.177-08:002010-11-23T10:44:25.177-08:00Cynthia, I can't find out for certain, but it&...Cynthia, I can't find out for certain, but it's a good guess on your part. Moll had an astute eye.Janehttp://www.thebluelantern.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-9279493158240529372010-10-30T17:47:58.487-07:002010-10-30T17:47:58.487-07:00In the self portrait, the sculpture to the left fo...In the self portrait, the sculpture to the left foreground resembles the paintings of Egon Schiele. Any connection there?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13291020899316270668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-21968365207635531612009-09-24T07:25:28.917-07:002009-09-24T07:25:28.917-07:00Welcome, Bridget. How fortunate you are to see th...Welcome, Bridget. How fortunate you are to see this work in person. I don't think there are any of Moll's paintings in the United States.Janehttp://www.thebluelantern.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-31811584676188950812009-09-24T07:25:28.252-07:002009-09-24T07:25:28.252-07:00Welcome, Bridget. How fortunate you are to see th...Welcome, Bridget. How fortunate you are to see this work in person. I don't think there are any of Moll's paintings in the United States.Janehttp://www.thebluelantern.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-13699079160726641932009-09-23T14:59:39.525-07:002009-09-23T14:59:39.525-07:00Thank you for this very interesting post: I redisc...Thank you for this very interesting post: I rediscover Moll that I saw in Berlin a long time ago, yes the winter landscapes are stunning.I didn't know, his life, a terrible time!Bridgethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05290856682859998312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-82233136253244354222009-09-22T07:28:35.097-07:002009-09-22T07:28:35.097-07:00Yes, Moll's work is often beautiful. Unlike K...Yes, Moll's work is often beautiful. Unlike Klimt, whose work he supported, Moll leaned more toward the Victorian (you could say hypocritical, given his personal behavior) than the Bohemian view of life. His portraits of women and children are conventional. His self-portrait is an impressive, distanced version of himself. If you didn't know who he was, you could mistake him for a burgher.Janehttp://www.thebluelantern.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-48281254172249836722009-09-22T05:35:09.284-07:002009-09-22T05:35:09.284-07:00This pictures are so evocative. I need to get to E...This pictures are so evocative. I need to get to Europe. My husband, the lucky skunk, gets to go next month.The Clever Puphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07198739825136188378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-22976944794000264292009-09-21T16:18:10.749-07:002009-09-21T16:18:10.749-07:00It's always interesting and somewhat disturbin...It's always interesting and somewhat disturbing to find out that an artist's personal sensibilities are questionable (or even distasteful) yet the person produces such serene work. These examples give me a 'Rockwell-esque' feeling - they're certainly uplifting and seem to be expressing joy and positive vibes. Very interesting.qwertyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01432204798446414619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086588560855961894.post-57309771278069486592009-09-21T14:44:38.519-07:002009-09-21T14:44:38.519-07:00Oooo, I especially like the winter landscape...bea...Oooo, I especially like the winter landscape...beautiful.Arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07615345242334094697noreply@blogger.com