Background
Moll was born in Vienna, Austria.
Moll was born in Vienna, Austria.
He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. After his teacher"s death (1892), Moll married Schindler"s widow, Anna (née von Bergen).
He was one of the artists of the Vienna Secession who took inspiration from the pointillist techniques of French Impressionists. He was a student of Christian Griepenkerl and of Emil Jakob Schindler (the father of Alma Mahler-Werfel née Schindler). In 1905 he, along with Gustav Klimt, left the Secession, although Moll continued to be involved with the exhibition of art in Vienna including the first exhibition in Vienna of the work of Vincent van Gogh (the second painting above the sideboard in his 1906 self-portrait is Van Gogh"s Portrait of the Artist"s Mother).
His paintings are characterized by the use of pointillist techniques within a strict organization of the surface of the painting.
He committed suicide at the end of World World War II, in Vienna. On 21 June 2013, the online auction house Auctionata in Berlin sold Moll"s Villa in Vienna for 240,000 Euros.
Previously a smaller painting, a still-life entitled Speisezimmer I, from the Rau collection fetched 286,700 Euros at Lempertz, a world record price for the artist.