Louis Moilliet

Louis René Moilliet (6 October 1880 – 24 August 1962) was a Swiss painter, watercolourist and stained-glass artist. He trained in Bern and at art schools in Germany, and later spent a study period in Rome. He became connected with the circle of Der Blaue Reiter in Munich, and in 1914 travelled to Tunisia with Paul Klee and August Macke. His work was influenced by Robert Delaunay’s Orphism, and later centred on watercolour and stained-glass commissions. He represented Switzerland at the 31st Venice Biennale in 1962.

Biography Louis Moilliet was born on 6 October 1880 in Bern. He began his artistic training in 1898 with an apprenticeship as a decorative painter at the de Quervain painting business in Bern, where he later studied with Adolf Hölzel.

In these paintings, figures and coloured planes are arranged in layered spaces, with translucent areas of colour. From the mid-1910s, Moilliet moved away from oil painting and concentrated increasingly on watercolour.