For the first time an exhibition is devoted exclusively to the drawings of Max von Moos (1903 – 1979). These drawings are surprisingly rich and offer a new look at an artist who is known mainly as a painter and Swiss surrealist.

Max von Moos drew incessantly both as part of his own artistic practice and as a teacher at the Lucerne School of Applied Arts. The Aargauer Kunsthaus shows a representative selection of the several thousands of surviving drawings from all creative periods. This selection both shows the stylistic diversity and the thematic constants of the artist’s work. Whether masks, self-portraits or grotesque scenes – the drawings invariably are about the existential themes of life and particularly its fragility.

The exhibition is organised in cooperation with the Max von Moos Foundation and is accompanied by a publication on the drawings authored and published by Peter Fischer.