Camille Graeser

Camille Graeser belonged to the group of Zurich Concretists which included Max Bill, Verena Loewensberg, and Richard Paul Lohse. His art is constructed from logical compositions based on geometry – the dimensions and values of colours, forms, and lines but with a very personal lyricism. Graeser was a successful interior architect, product designer, and advertising graphic designer in Stuttgart, where he took part in major exhibitions by the association Werkbund and in 1927 was invited to create furniture for Mies van der Rohe. He was forced to flee to Zurich after the Nazis came to power in 1933. Very few of his expressive and cubist-futurist drawings and watercolours from that time survived. In 1937, Graeser became a member of the artists’ association Allianz, which publicly promoted new artistic tendencies, especially Concrete... Show more

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