Richard Paul Lohse

Richard Paul Lohse was a Swiss painter and graphic artist and a prime mover within the concrete art movement there. Lohse was born in Zürich in 1902, and although he had ambitions to study art in Paris he lacked the resources to do so. In 1918, he joined the advertising agency Max Dalang, where he trained to become an advertising designer. Self-taught, he painted expressive, cubist-like still lives. By the 1930s, his work as a graphic artist and book designer placed him among the pioneers of modern Swiss graphic design and his success eventually allowed him to establish his own graphic design studio in Zürich. In his paintings of this period, he worked on curved and diagonal constructions. He combined art with a political and moral awareness, which led him to... Show more

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