Carl Moll
(Vienna 1861–1945)
„Pferdekutsche im Scharflinger Wald“ („Horse carriage in the Scharflinger Forest, Austria), c. 1924, monogrammed CM, inscribed on the reverse stretcher C. Moll, oil on canvas, 71 x 61 cm, framed
Listed and illustrated:
Cornelia Cabuk, Carl Moll. Monografie und Werkverzeichnis, Belvedere Werkverzeichnisse, vol. 11, Vienna 2020, cat. rais. no. GE 354 (there titled „Pferdekutsche im Scharflinger Wald“)
Provenance:
Galerie Schebesta, Vienna
Sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 30 November 1965, p. 11, lot 87, ill. plate 83
Private Collection, Vienna
In the summer of 1924, Carl Moll spent time in the Salzkammergut region and, prompted perhaps by a nostalgic impulse, sought out motifs in the so-called Scharfling Forest (Scharflinger Wald), which connects the Mondsee and Wolfgangsee areas along a mountain pass. In 1890, the landscape painter and Stimmungsimpressionist Emil Jakob Schindler had painted one of his final masterpieces here, “Waldstraße bei Scharfling”, in which a horse-drawn carriage comes into view at the end of the path.
Carl Moll’s catalogue raisonné documents six variations featuring motifs from the Scharfling Forest; however, it is unique in this painting that he includes the horse-drawn carriage – as if offering a distant homage to Schindler, his mentor, teacher, and paternal friend.
Specialist: Dr. Marianne Hussl-Hörmann
(Vienna 1861–1945)
„Pferdekutsche im Scharflinger Wald“ („Horse carriage in the Scharflinger Forest, Austria), c. 1924, monogrammed CM, inscribed on the reverse stretcher C. Moll, oil on canvas, 71 x 61 cm, framed
Listed and illustrated:
Cornelia Cabuk, Carl Moll. Monografie und Werkverzeichnis, Belvedere Werkverzeichnisse, vol. 11, Vienna 2020, cat. rais. no. GE 354 (there titled „Pferdekutsche im Scharflinger Wald“)
Provenance:
Galerie Schebesta, Vienna
Sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 30 November 1965, p. 11, lot 87, ill. plate 83
Private Collection, Vienna
In the summer of 1924, Carl Moll spent time in the Salzkammergut region and, prompted perhaps by a nostalgic impulse, sought out motifs in the so-called Scharfling Forest (Scharflinger Wald), which connects the Mondsee and Wolfgangsee areas along a mountain pass. In 1890, the landscape painter and Stimmungsimpressionist Emil Jakob Schindler had painted one of his final masterpieces here, “Waldstraße bei Scharfling”, in which a horse-drawn carriage comes into view at the end of the path.
Carl Moll’s catalogue raisonné documents six variations featuring motifs from the Scharfling Forest; however, it is unique in this painting that he includes the horse-drawn carriage – as if offering a distant homage to Schindler, his mentor, teacher, and paternal friend.
Specialist: Dr. Marianne Hussl-Hörmann
