Marg Moll
German artist and writer (1884–1977)
Marg Moll (born Margarethe Haeffner; 2 August 1884 – 15 March 1977) was a German sculptor, painter and author.
Moll was strongly influenced by Henri Matisse as a young artist and spent her life contributing to his form of art, although at times her art was destroyed and criticized by Nazis because it was modern art. Moll was known for being very high spirited when it came to Matisse and was known for building an "ultra-modern house" in Berlin designed by Hans Scharoun, German architect best known for his design on the Berlin Philharmonic concert hall in Berlin, Germany.
Biography
Moll was born in Mühlhausen. She attended the Stadelsches Institut in Frankfurt am Main from 1903 to 1905 and studied under painter Hans Volker in Wiesbaden. She also studied painting in Bavaria under Oskar Moll, a professor and director at the Breslau Academy. Marg also studied sculpture under Louise Schmidt in Frankfurt am Main. In 1905, she traveled to Rome and later studied at Lovis Corinth's school for women in Berlin from 1906 to 1907.
Margarethe married Oskar Moll and became known as the "Director's Wife" due to her husband's position. From 1907 to 1908, she studied at Académie Matisse, Paris, and founded the Matisse School in Paris with her husband in 1908 to teach and promote the modernist aesthetics in art, including Matisse's form of art.
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