(Vienna 1861–1945)
‘Park bei Neulengbach (Schlosspark Murstetten)’, c. 1888, monogrammed CM, verso signed (in pencil) Carl Moll, oil on panel, 36.2 x 26.3 cm, framed, (K)

Label on the reverse:
Sammlung Dr. Josef Weese Wien VI. Getreidemarkt 9, in handwriting: N 173 Moll Carl Wien aus dem Park von Murstetten bei Neu Lengbach Nd. Öst. (Studie für Jak. E. Schindler), Öl, Holz... The current painting will be included in the catalogue raisonné edited by Dr. Cornelia Cabuk, Belvedere, Vienna.

Illustrated:
Carl Moll, Seine Freunde. Sein Leben. Sein Werk, publisher Galerie Welz, Salzburg 1985, plate 4 (full-page colour ill.)
Die Schule von Plankenberg, Emil Jakob Schindler und der österreichische Stimmungsexpressionismus, catalogue of the Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum St. Pölten 16.5.-13.10.1991, Graz 1991, p. 13, 84, cat. no 41, with ill.
Carl Moll, Park – near Neulengbach (Murstetten) – 438-55811-6

Provenance:
Josef Weese Collection (1888-1962), Vienna
Friedrich Pfohl Collection (1919-2005), Graz
Sale Dorotheum Vienna, 11 March 1975, Lot 97
Private Collection, Lower Austria
Sale Dorotheum Vienna, 13 March 1979, Lot 89
Private Collection, Vienna

Formerly on loan:
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere (label on the reverse).
Lot description from the Belvedere archive:
Carl Moll painted the view from the castle park of Murstetten near Neulengbach in c. 1888, as a student of Emil Jakob Schindler. In 1885, Schindler had rented Schloss Neulengbach near Plankenberg, in order to paint in the vicinity with his group of students. The intimate landscape motif in the style of Austrian atmospheric realism depicts the rear view of a statue in a hidden corner of the castle park of Murstetten. The castle itself is not preserved, yet the Baroque garden figures on the other hand are still to be found in the hilly landscape. The poetic view of the scenery, devoid of people, invites contemplation and reveals Carl Moll as a follower of his teacher. In the company of Emil Jakob Schindler... In spring they travelled out into the Lower Austrian countryside. Schindler, Olga Wisinger, Maria Egner and Moll ‘the master, two companions, and an apprentice.’

Moll attached himself closely to the family, whose circle of friends also included Hugo Wolf, who had just composed his opera ‘Der Corregidor’, which however only had its debut much later, with great success, in Mannheim. ‘At the side of Schindler,’ Carl Moll reminisced, ‘everything that slumbered hidden inside me awoke. I was granted the privilege of living for ten years in the company of my master, in the circle of his family, and this decade shaped me, and pointed the way into life. When experiencing nature, Schindler never spoke; he didn‘t need to. When he stood still, where he stood still, how he looked, how he fashioned things, these said everything. Since Schindler I know: seeing is the richest of all of the pleasures capable with the senses.’ Although frequently in material hardship, Schindler managed to rent Schloss Plankenberg in Lower Austria, between Neulengbach and Tulln. ‘Here, the week consisted of seven Sundays,’ Moll recalled.
from the aforementioned literature Carl Moll, Seine Freunde. Sein Leben. Sein Werk.