Wedding In Douarnenez By Carl Moser - Brittany

Wood engraved on Japanese paper, signed lower left, dated 1922 and numbered 34. Dimensions without frame at sight 43.5 x 54 cm, with frame 61 x 71 cm.

We are delighted to present an artist who is rarely found on the French market. If you like Japonism, you will be won over. His wood engravings are poetic and full of grace.

Carl Moser (1871-1939) grew up in Bolzano in a family of tanners which included several self-taught artists. After commercial training, he ended up returning to his first love, painting, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. At the end of this training, he traveled to Germany, Corsica, Italy and France, where he settled in 1901. He took courses at the Julian Academy there. In Paris, he discovered Japonism in painting and engraving. Carl Moser spent his summers in Brittany (Douarnenez and Concarneau) where he met Max Kurzweil who encouraged him to explore color wood engraving. He became friends with Henri Rivière. Carl Moser achieves a remarkable synthesis between Japanese art and European art. He returned home to Bolzano in 1907 and exhibited his prints in Germany and Austria. The Albertina Museum in Vienna bought a large number of engravings from him. The First World War caused South Tyrol to change nationality, from Austrian to Italian. Moser now exhibits in his adopted country in various galleries in Rome, Turin and Milan and at the Venice Biennale. Carl Moser died in the late thirties in poverty and forgotten. His graphic work was rediscovered in the seventies, notably with the Innsbruck exhibition in 1978.