Max von Moos

Max von Moos ( born December 6, 1903 in Lucerne, Switzerland, † May 28, 1979 ibid ) is a Swiss surrealist painter and printmaker.

Life

Max von Moos was the son of the painter Joseph von Moos, director of the School of Applied Arts in Lucerne. After an illness accompanied by youth Moss attended the school of his father at the age of 16 years. With the exception of his one-year period of study at the State School of Applied Arts Munich Moss lived exclusively in Lucerne.

Style

The prevailing Moss ' style principle is doubt. It creates the images, so it cultivated moss. He is frightened, desperate people who are surrounded and beset by violence, pain, decay and destruction, in hopeless or absurd comic situations. Moss describes his fear of the world and the failure of perception and expression, given the unheilverheissenden reality. In addition to these excursions into the Terrible his works lead in older or untouched by civilization walks of life: underwater worlds, grave chambers, fossils, skeletons.

Moss ' works have already experienced deep psychological interpretation, for example, in " Max von Moos. A deep psychological interpretation of the work with a critical catalog of paintings "of the art historian Hans -Jörg Heusser. Moss taught at the School of Art Lucerne. One of his students was the Freiaemter graphic artist René Villiger. In his home city of Lucerne is the " Max von Moos Foundation ".