3836 - Karl Schmoll von Eisenwerth, “In the Garden”

Karl Schmoll von Eisenwerth, “In the Garden” young woman holding a basket of fruit, colour woodcut, 1908, signed in lead at the bottom “K. Schmoll von Eisenwerth", slight signs of wear, framed with a passe-partout and behind glass, image dimensions approx. 15 x 13 cm. Artist information: whose real name was Karl Schmoll, but who, like his father, called himself “Schmoll von Eisenwerth”; German-Austrian painter, draughtsman, graphic artist, craftsman, poster artist and glass artist (1879, Vienna - 1948, Gut Osternberg near Braunau am Inn), spent his childhood in Vienna; from 1889 in St. Wendel and from 1895 in Darmstadt, where he received his first painting lessons from Richard Hoelscher and came into contact with Art Nouveau; 1898-1902: studied at the Academy in Munich under Ludwig von Herterich and Paul Hoecker, influenced by Joseph Maria Olbrich and Ferdinand Hodler; maintained contacts with the Dachau artists’ colony, the Osternberg artists’ colony and Emil Reynier in Braunau am Inn; made regular painting trips to Dachau, Burghausen and on Lake Chiemsee; at the same time, worked as a designer for Ferdinand von Poschinger’s glassworks in Buchenau; exhibited at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris and at the Darmstadt Artists’ Colony exhibitions in 1901 and 1909, in 1902 travelled to Rome with Carl Kaspar, Hermann Haller and Paul Klee; from 1903 had a studio in Munich-Schwabing; from 1904 to 1907 taught drawing and printmaking at the private Debschitz School in Munich; 1907-46: Professor at the Technical University of Stuttgart; created several murals; from 1924: landowner in Osternberg, near Braunau am Inn, Austria; 1927-29: Rector of the Technical University of Stuttgart; 1905-39: Member of the Vienna Secession; from 1924: Member and Guild Master of the Innviertel Artists’ Guild; member of the Stuttgart Artists’ Association, the St Luke’s Guild in Amsterdam, the Free Association of Düsseldorf Artists, and the German Artists’ Association in Weimar; the Munich Association of Drawing Artists and the German Werkbund; worked in Stuttgart and Osternberg, Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Saur, *Bio-Bibliographical Artists’ Encyclopaedia*; register of the Academy in Munich; Bruckmann, *Munich Painters of the 19th/20th Centuries*; Davidson, Fuchs, Müller-Singer, ÖBL, Dressler and Wikipedia.