Biografie von Hans MOLLER (1905-2000)

Birth place: Wuppertal-Barmen, Germany

Addresses: NYC; Allentown, PA

Profession: Painter, designer, teacher

Studied: Kunstgewerbeschule, Wuppertal-Barmen, 1919-27; Acad. FA, Berlin, 1927-28.

Exhibited: Art Dir. Club, 1944 (prize); PAFA Ann., 1944-53 (8 times); AIC, 1942-46; VMFA, 1946; WMAA, 1946-65; Bonestell Gal., 1942-43; Chicago AC, 1945 (solo); Univ. Mich., 1945 (solo); Kleeman Gal., 1945 (solo); Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1947-61 (5 times, incl. 4th hon. men., 1949); "Contemp. Am. Painting," Univ. Illinois, Urbana, 1949-59 (7 times); Third Art Int., Japan, 1955; "Nat. Religious Art Exh.," Sacred Heart Sem., Detroit, 1964 (first purchase prize); NAD, 1968 (Palmer Mem. prize for marine painting), 1969 (144th Ann. Exh., Samuel F.B. Morse Medal); Allentown (PA) Art Mus. (solo); Norfolk (VA) Mus., 1969 (solo); Contemp. PS&G, 1969; Midtown Gals., NYC, 1970s

Member: NAD; Fed. Mod. P&S

Work: MoMA; WMAA; Hirshhorn Mus.; Detroit IA; Phillips Mem Gal; Walker AC, Minneapolis. Commissions: stained glass window, comn. by AFA & Stained Glass Indust. of the U.S., 1953; tapestry (executed in Aubusson, France), comn. by private collectors, New York, 1966; seven stained glass windows, comn. by Mr. & Mrs. Neil Carothers III for Christ Church, Georgetown, Wash., DC, 1969.

Comments: It has been said that he delighted in searching out the color inherent in nature, and his favorite painting locations included Monhegan Island (ME). Preferred media: oils, watercolors. Teaching: Cooper Union Sch Art, 1944-56.

Sources: WW73; John I.H. Baur, Nature in Abstraction (WMAA, 1958); Abram Kampf, Contemporary Synagogue Art (Union Am. Hebrew Congregation, 1966); WW47; Curtis, Curtis, and Lieberman, 81, 185; Falk, Exh. Record Series.