MOLL, OSKAR1875 Brzeg/Silesia - 1947 Berlin


Title: Stillleben DER (Komposition DER und Fragezeichen).
Date: 1928.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 64 x 54,5cm.
Notation: Signed lower right: Oskar Moll. Verso upper centre inscribed (by a hand other than that pf the artist): Kubistisches Stillleben mit Fragezeichen und Williams No 30.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.


We are grateful to Dr Gerhard Leistner, Wenzenbach, for his kind assistance.

Provenance:
- Estate of Oskar Moll (inventory list Marg Moll, June 1963, no. 455)
- Marg Moll, Düsseldorf
- Private collection, Hesse

Exhibitions:
- Galerie F.A.C. Prestel, Frankfurt a. M. 1965-1966 (adhesive label)
- Galerie Dr. Rainer Horstmann, Düsseldorf 1966
- Haus des Deutschen Ostens, Düsseldorf 1972

Literature:
- Siegfried and Dorothea Salzmann: Oskar Moll. Leben und Werk, Munich 1975, no. 265, p. 117, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Galerie F.A.C. Prestel, Frankfurt a.M. 1965-1966, no. 25 (here differently titled and dated)
- Exhib. cat. Oskar Moll. Gemälde, Galerie Dr. Rainer Horstmann, Düsseldorf 1966, no. 15
- Exhib. cat. Marg and Oskar Moll. Bilder - Skulpturen - Skizzen, Haus des Deutschen Ostens, Düsseldorf 1972, no. 4

- Oskar Moll's oeuvre, which was severely diminished by war and persecution, occupies an important position in German post-war modernism
- Lively colour palette and powerful contrasts merge into a dynamic composition
- Sophisticated combination of geometric forms and symbolic depth.