Carl Moll (1861 – Vienna – 1945)
was an Austrian painter whose work had a significant influence on Viennese art life around 1900. Born on 23 April 1861 in Vienna, he received artistic training at an early age, including lessons from Carl Haunold and at the Academy under Christian Griepenkerl. He became a private student, friend and later son-in-law of Emil Jakob Schindler and married his widow Anna. In 1897, Moll was one of the founders of the Vienna Secession, but left it in 1905 due to artistic tensions. In the meantime, he was director of the Miethke Gallery, where he promoted exhibitions with international artists. Stylistically, his early work combines atmospheric landscapes and detailed interiors, while later his use of light and space became increasingly expressive and spatial. In the final months of the war in 1945, when Soviet troops reached Vienna, he took his own life on 13 April together with his daughter and son-in-law.
