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Carl Moll's Painting Reconsidered Amid His Nazi Sympathies
Original: My favourite paintings No.73 Carl Moll, Washing Day (1895) Carl Moll's sympathies with the Nazi party before his suicide
Austrian painter Carl Moll, a founder of the Vienna Secession, is being discussed after attention turned to his 1895 genre work Washing Day. Commentators note that Moll's sympathies with the Nazi party before his suicide in 1945 have, to some extent rightly, blighted his reputation, yet the early painting is praised as a wonderfully matter-of-fact depiction of everyday work.
Why now: renewed debate over separating artists' work from their tainted political pasts
Carl MollVienna SecessionNazi partyWashing Day
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- My favourite paintings No.73 Carl Moll, Washing Day (1895) Carl Moll's sympathies with the Nazi party before his suicide in 1945, have to some extent blighted (rightly?) his subsequent reputation, but this early work is a wonderfully matter-of-fact genre painting of the work… · ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk · 7
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