KUNSTMUSEUM

Louis-Henri Moilliet was a good friend of the collector Hermann Rupf and of course of Paul Klee. Moilliet (1880-1962) and Paul Klee got to know one another at secondary school in Bern. Moilliet did an apprenticeship as a decorative artist and then moved into the artists' colony in Worpswede. In 1909, Moilliet made a trip to Paris with August Macke and the following year he lived for a couple of weeks with Macke on the Tegernsee Lake. It was thanks to Moilliet's hospitality that Macke and Klee got to know one another at Moilliet's apartment in Oberhofen on Lake Thun. In 1911, Moilliet made the acquaintance of Wassily Kandinsky and artists of the Blaue Reiter. He travelled to Tunisia in 1914 with Klee and Macke - and of course you feel the influence of this trip to Tunisia very well in this Tunis-watercolor by Moilliet. The glass painting, Knaben beim Fischfang (Boys Fishing) was done in 1924 for the bathroom window of Hermann and Margrit Rupf's house.

Susanne Friedli, Friend of the Kuntsmuseum