Max von Moos

 

Original Pen and Ink drawing by Swiss surrealist artist Max von Moos.

 

Dated 1942, this image of a kind of death head, reduced to an impression of muscle and supporting sinew. It may represent Germany during WWII. The figure wears an elegant high collar, and what may be the German Iron Cross. It is mounted on a cross, and hovers over an Alpinelake, perhaps Lake Zurich.

 

Max von Moos|
(1903 - Luzern - 1979)

 

Max von Moos was born and grew up in the region near Luzern, the son of an artist. He began to paint as a teenager after falling ill with Tuberculosis. He was close to the surrealist movement, and his works expressed dark fears and themes of death. After WWII he became political active, embraced Marxism, and was one of the founders of theSwiss-USSR friendship societies. (He later distanced himself from Marxism in after visiting the USSR in the 1960s)

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His works are the subject of the book: "Atlas Anatomie Angst: Max von Moos (1903-1979)" by Roman Kurzmeyer.

 

 

 

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