1900, Carl Moll, Forest Pond with Water Lilies [Waldweiher mit Seerosen] -- Leopold Museum (Vienna)

From the museum label: Carl Moll studied in Christian Griepenker's class at Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts in 1880/01, though he formed his ar-tistic views in the circle around Emil Jakob Schindler. After Schindler's death in 1892, he performed great service as a biographer and exhibition organizer to honor posthumously his teacher, and married the latter's wife Anna. At the founding of the Vienna Secession in 1897, Moll acted as its vice-president, though in 1905 he resigned from the association together with the Klimt Group. Close ups of still waters as a motif not only occupied Moll and his fellow-student Gustav Klimt; likewise, the Belgian Fernand Khnopff and numerous other painters and photographers around 1900. It was revealed—symbolistically understood—as a hoard of dull presentiments, or as a blurred reflection of "nature as teacher."

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