Louis Moilliet

Louis Moilliet ( born October 6, 1880 in Bern, † August 24 1962 in Vevey) was a Swiss artist, known as a painter and glass artist. His expressionist painting style was associated with the movement of Orphism.

Life

Childhood and education

Born the son of a professional officer, Moilliet learned during his school days met Paul Klee. After graduating in 1898 he began an apprenticeship as a decorative painter and attended from 1900, the Industrial School. After a stay in the Worpswede, where he met Fritz Mackensen and Paula Modersohn -Becker, he continued his studies in Dusseldorf and Weimar in 1903 and returned back to Bern, where he worked with clover. In 1904 he was accepted on the recommendation of the sculptor Hermann Haller in the master class of Leopold von Kalckreuth in the Stuttgart Academy.

First study trips

After a study trip to Rome in 1907, followed in 1908 Moilliets first trip to Tunisia. He returned to Bern and in 1909 met August Macke, with whom he remained until his death in 1914 joined in a close friendship and artistic relationship. In 1909 to 1910 he again visited Tunisia. 1910 Moilliet married the pianist Hélène Gobat; they went for a few years at Lake Thun.

Acquaintance with the painters of the Blaue Reiter

In October 1911, he visited Klee in Munich, where he met Macke again and learned the painters of the Blaue Reiter, Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, know. In this time Fauvist paintings. First, important group exhibitions in Cologne, Munich and Berlin followed in the storm gallery. Moilliet received decisive impulses from Macke; this gave him the doctrine Robert Delaunay.

Tunis Travel with Klee and Macke

On April 5, 1914 Moilliet broke with Paul Klee and August Macke 'legendary journey to Tunisia, during which they mutually inspired in their watercolor painting. They painted together in the port of Tunis, in Saint Germain ( الزهراء, Ezzahra ) in the country home of Dr. Ernst and Pink Jaeggi -Müller, a fellow with Moilliet Swiss doctor couple, in Hammamet, Sidi Bou Saïd and Kairouan. In 1914, he created this as his main work took up oil painting circus, which is exhibited in the Kunstmuseum Basel.

Encounter with Hermann Hesse

Died in 1916 Moilliets wife shortly after the birth of his first son Pierre. In the summer of 1920 he visited Hermann Hesse in Ticino, where he served as a model for the painter Louis in Klingsor's Last Summer, and for whom he illustrated texts. Between 1919 and 1921 he toured again in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. During this time a large group of works of watercolors created.

Watercolor painting and stained glass

On November 5, 1921 Moilliets second son Peter was born from the marriage with Margaretha Zaeslin; the marriage was dissolved in 1930. 1923 painted his last oil Moilliet image in the sequence, he concentrated on watercolor painting. He received commissions for stained glass windows at the Brückfeldstrasse in Bern, in the church of Bremgarten in Bern as well as glass windows in Luzern. Since this contract for the windows of the church of St. Luke Lucerne, which created Moilliet in the period 1934-1936, the stained glass to the preferred working the late period was. From 1936 he painted no new watercolors, but revised earlier works created. A year later, he met Kay Oederlin know, his companion of the last twenty-five years. This was followed by orders for sgraffito in Schosshaldenfriedhof in Bern, glass windows in Winterthur and the chapel of the hospital Burger in Bern.

From 1950 lived Moilliet in La Tour -de- Peilz, a suburb of Vevey, where he died in 1962 at the age of 82 years.