Carl Moll – Dahlias - Art nouveau public domain image

Carl Moll (1861–1945) was one of the most important and most influential personalities in Viennese art life around 1900. As a painter of landscapes, still life's and interiors he started in the tradition of the Stimmungs impressionismus (Austrian mood impressionism), characterized by his teacher and friend the landscape painter Emil Jakob Schindler. Then he developed a two-dimensional style like the other artists of the Viennese Secession, in the late works modified in an expressive way filled with light and space. Carl Moll was the cofounder of the Viennese Secession and the director of the Gallery Miethke, so he organized a lot of very important exhibitions of contemporary art. Thus he can be called a key figure of Austrian art life in the beginning of the 20th century