Wilfrid Moser was born in Zurich-Enge on June 10, 1914. His father was a sinologist, his mother a piano teacher. Due to his father’s teaching assignments in European universities, Wilfrid very early gets to know several cities and their culture. In the Zurich family home, he meets such painters as Otto Baumberger, Albert Pfister and Henri Wabel, among other figures of the local arts scene.
His early drawings, spurred by personal encounters, literary discoveries, travel impressions and visits to exhibitions, show a striking sense of colour and lyricism (Zoos, Cityscapes from One Thousand and One Nights, Skaters etc.). In 1930, some of them are published in the Schweizer Spiegel.
Around 1920
The family settles for some time in Siena, whose cathedral will later play an important role in the artist’s oeuvre. During the family’s repeated sojourns in Venice, the boy is deeply impressed by the Giudecca, which is to become another recurrent theme in his later work.
In 1929, the boy Wilfrid is crowned best shot (Schützenkönig) of Zurich. Although he had already opted for a career as a painter in 1932, he continues for about half a year to study the violin (alongside Michael Mann) in Wilhelm de Boor’s master class, then first violinist with the Tonhalle Orchestra; he also continues his studies of the classical violin which he had taken up at a very young age at the Zurich conservatory. He travels to Paris, Berlin, Italy and the Soviet Union and studies painting by himself; he pays a visit to Ensor in Oostende and travels with Nicolas de Stael, to Morocco and Spain, in 1935 to 1938. In 1939, before the outbreak of the war, he is in Paris. In Zurich, he develops a friendship with the painter Varlin, who invites him to take part in a joint exhibition. He produces figurative paintings and drawings, influenced by Utrillo, Rouault and Ensor: architecture in broken perspectives, funfair scenes and the Jardin des Plantes in poetic defamiliarisation.
From 1940 to 1945
He serves in the Swiss Army. He marries Jeanne Gysi and settles in Ronco s/Ancona where he builds a house and studio. 1942, birth of their first son, Niklaus Manuel, who dies just after his birth. 1944, birth of their son Gabriel. During the war he produces expressionist woodcuts of war scenes.
Immediately after the war, he returns to Paris, where he lives in the rue de l’Ancienne Comédie. In the early figurative works of this period, whose key themes – métro stations, open houses, butcher’s shops, Jardin des Plantes – emerge as metaphors of the human condition, his painting is already marked by a dialogue between German expressionism and French painting. Having come to know Wols and his work, Moser ventures into tachist territory and develops a personal style made up of dynamic layerings of conflicting abstract structures and figurative signs.
From the 1950s onwards
Moser lives alternately in Paris and Ronco. In 1956, he divorces from Johanna. In 1958, he meets Eva Rosa Puig, daughter of the writer Puig y Ferreter, a former Minister of the Interior of the republican government of Catalonia, who had been in exile in France since 1936. Towards the end of the year, Wilfrid and Eva marry and travel to Spain. In 1958, he represents Switzerland at the Venice Biennial. In 1959, he participates in the Sao Paolo Biennial.
Supported by art critics Roger Van Gindertael, Herta Wescher and Charles Estienne, Moser becomes one of the leading exponents of “tachism” in Paris. From the beginning in the fifties, Moser’s abstract gestural painting demarcates itself from the Second School of Paris by its powerful expressivity. His personal version of the “tache” consists of a dynamic painting knife stroke of two or three contrasting colours, imprinting rhythmic effects on the canvas, shaping three-dimensional chasms and abysses. Beyond the abstract composition, one recognises cathedrals, houses, cityscapes, mythological and historical scenes and impressions of landscapes.
In the early sixties
His expressive “tachism” develops into a vividly coloured way of painting, characterised by dynamic brush strokes and figurative shapes, interspersed with elements of collage and disrupted by letters and fragments of words. The urban echoes in these paintings are evocative of Pop Art and make Moser into a forerunner of the “Neue Wilde” of the eighties.
For the first time in the history of the arts, the metropolitan underground (“Métro”) acquires a mythological dimension. Eurylochos and Concierges are other subjects. From 1965 onwards, Moser reaches out into the third dimension: wood reliefs and assemblages of planks; he also creates his first sculptures, among them several walk-in sculptures. From 1964 to 1972 he is a member of the Swiss Federal Commission of the Fine Arts.
In the seventies
Apart from continuing to live in Paris and Ronco, Moser spends more and more time in Zurich, where he gets to know the art historian Tina Grütter. From 1971 to 1978, he is Central President of the Swiss Society of Painters, Sculptors and Architects, where he actively promotes the active participation of women.
Although his striated red and white epoxy sculptures (small sculptures and walk-in sculptures in public places) have become his new hallmark, he soon embarks on new artistic experiments. In order to enhance the visionary quality of the third dimension, he relinquishes his sculptural activities and returns to flat surfaces. Inspired by the quarries and rocky slopes of the Gotthard massif, he creates metaphorical landscapes in timeless spaces: Le bout du monde, La dernière neige, La clef de l’abîme, Acis). It is with these pictures of rocks and stones that he represents Switzerland at the 1980 Venice Biennial.
In the 80’s
In 1984, Moser is awarded the honours distinction of the Canton of Zurich. In 1985, he is nominated “Chevalier des Arts et Lettres” by the Minister of Culture of the French Republic. In the course of the eighties, he travels to study the major art collections of Europe, returning several times to Venice, the Serenissima.
From 1985 to 1993 he is a member of the Collections Commission of the Kunsthaus Zurich. In a series of portraits of trees and brushwood, he further pursues representations of space that are both realistic and expressive. In the mid-eighties, he revisits gestural painting, dissolving the compact rock shapes and transforming the realistic brushwood structures into a colourful maze of lines. Motion sequences are augmented to a point where they pulsate like so many dynamic rhythms.
While most of his compositions are symbolic representations of historical and mythological struggles, some also reflect his interest in the events of his time. He returns to earlier themes, upon which he superimposes a moving and scintillating linear structure, fusing them into a single theme. In 1989 he is awarded the Kunstpreis of the City of Zurich (celebratory speech by Stanislaus von Moos). In burlesque and macabre scenes, Moser’s colours become more vivid, his lines more expressive.
From 1990
New dominant themes emerge: La Chute des Idoles, Pont Alexandre. In pastels of powerful momentum and baroque opulence, created after 1993, he revisits his earlier themes, from the Jardin des Plantes and the open houses to the Chute des Idoles, staging scenes from the great fun fair of the world, parading ghostly processions and festive retinues under the spectator’s eyes.
In 1993 he is promoted to the rank of “Officier des Arts et Lettres” by the Minister of Culture of the French Republic.
1997
On December 19, 1997 Wilfrid Moser dies unexpectedly of a stroke.
Individual and group exhibitions, biennials
Individual exhibitions
| 1953 | Zurich, Zum Strauhof, W. Moser, 12.-30.1. |
| 1954 | Locarno, Galleria la Citadella, 1.9.-20.9. |
| 1958 | Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Peintures récentes de W. Moser, 14.11.-6.12. |
| 1961 | Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Moser, 17.3.-8.4. |
| 1963 | Oslo, Galleri Haaken, Wilfrid Moser. Separatutstilling, ab 28. September |
| 1964 | Luzern, Kunstmuseum, Moser, 30.8.-25.10. |
| 1965 | Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Moser, 12.5.-5.6. |
| 1967 | Lausanne, Galerie Alice Pauli, 12.5.-7.6. |
| 1970 | Zurich, Kunsthaus, Moser, 24.03 – 10. 05 Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, 28.05 – 27.06 |
| 1971 | Ascona, Galleria Associazione Artisti Ascona, Moser, 27.3.-23.4. Zurich, Galerie Scheidegger + Maurer, 7.10.-17.11. |
| 1972 | Genf, Artel Galerie |
| 1974 | Zurich, Galerie Scheidegger + Maurer, Juni Biel, Kunstverein und Galerie 57, Wilfrid Moser, 19.10.-16.11. Metz, Musées de Metz, Moser. Sculptures polychromes, 23.11.-5.1.1975 |
| 1975 | Winterthur, Galerie ge, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, 12.4.-6.5. |
| 1976 | Zurich, Galerie Maurer, Januar |
| 1978 | Fribourg, Galerie RB, Wilfrid Moser, 25.2.-25.3. Zurich, Galerie Maurer, Marz-April Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Lieux et passages: recherche d’une dramatisation de l’espace, 25.5.29.6. Zurich, Galerie Scheidegger, Bilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Holzschnitte, 19.10.-14.11. |
| 1979 | Winterthur, Galerie ge, 18.1.-17.2. Basel, Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Art 10’79 |
| 1980 | Zurich, Galerie Maurer, Mai Venedig, Biennale, Schweizer Pavillon (mit Peter Stein und Oscar Wiggli), 1.06.-28.9. Bern, Kunstkeller, 18.10.-15.11. |
| 1981 | Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Wilfrid Moser. Fragments de paysages. Aquarelles et pastels, 27.1.28.2. Zurich, Galerie Semiha Huber, Bilder und Aquarelle 1979-1981, 22.5.-26.6. |
| 1982 | Bern, Kunstkeller, Wilfrid Moser, 27.2.-3.4. Zurich, Galerie Semina Huber Zurich, Galerie Maurer, August Zell (Luzern), Galerie Priska Meier, Wilfrid Moser. Werke von 1945-1982, 23.10.-28.11. |
| 1983 | Winterthur, Galerie ge, Wilfrid Moser, 25.2.-26.03. Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Peintures et sculptures 1953-1983, 26.4.-4.6. |
| 1984 | Chur, Galerie Giacometti, Bilder, Pastelle, Aquarelle, 19.4.-19.5. Zurich, Galerie Maurer, April-Mai Genf, Galerie Kara, Wilfrid Moser. Peitures, scultures, 7.6.-27.7. |
| 1985 | Zell (Luzern), Galerie Priska Meier, Wilfrid Moser. Neue Werke, 20.4.-26.5. Zurich, Galerie Maurer, Oktober-Dezember 20.12. |
| 1986 | Winterthur, Galerie ge, Wilfrid Moser, 4.4.-3.5. Biel, Galerie 57 Silvia Steiner, 18.10.-15.11. Genf, Galerie Kara, Peintures 1954-1986 (espace R), 20.11.-10.1.1987 |
| 1987 | Zurich, Galerie Maurer, Wilfrid Moser. Werke im Zusammenhang mit der Skulptur „Leporello“ fur das Kunsthaus Zurich, 9.4.-Ende Mai Winterthur, Galerie ge an der Art 18’87, 17.-22.6. Zell (Luzern), Galerie Priska Meier, 17.10.-22.11. |
| 1988 | Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Wilfrid Moser. Peintures 1985-88, 3.10.-12.11. |
| 1989 | Winterthur, Galerie ge, Wilfrid Moser, 30.3.-29.4. Schaan (FL), Galerie Theater am Kirchplatz, Malerei, Zeichnungen, Plastik, 16.9.-27.10. Zurich, Galerie Maurer, November-Dezember |
| 1990 | Zell (Luzern), Galerie Priska Meier, Werke von 1987-90, 6.10.-11.11. |
| 1991 | Zurich, Galerie Maurer, Wilfrid Moser, 30.5.-5.7. Winterthur, Galerie ge, Wilfrid Moser, 23.8.-28.9. |
| 1992 | Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, FIAC, Grand-Palais, La chute des idoles et autres travaux récents accompagnés de quelques tableaux de référence, 23.10.-1.11. |
| 1993 | Zurich, Kunsthaus, Wilfrid Moser. Ein Schweizer Betrag zur europaischen Nachkriegskunst, 3.9. -31.10. |
| 1994 | Winterthur, Galerie ge, Wilfrid Moser. Bilder und Zeichnungen, 28.4.-21.5. |
| 1996 | Basel, Galerie Garzaniga & Ueker, Moser, 27.6.-10.8. |
| 1997 | Paris, Galerie Jeanne-Bucher, FIAC, Grand-Palais, 24.4.-28.4. Zurich, Graphisches Kabinett Kunsthaus, Pont Alexandre oder Die Alterheiterkeit des Wilfrid Moser. Pastelle 1993-1997, 5.12.-18.1.1998. |
| 1998 | Paris, Galerie Jeanne-Bucher Wilfrid Moser. Le pont Alexandre III. Oeuvres ultimes 1994-1997, 5.11. -13.12 / Bellinzona, Villa dei Cedri, ab 12.3. Wiesbaden, Galerie B. Haasner, Wilfrid Moser (1914-1997). Oelbilder – Pastelle – Radierungen, 4.9. -16.10. |
| 1999 | Zurich, Graphische Sammlung der ETH, Wilfrid Moser, 18.8.-15.10. Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Wilfrid Moser, 27.3.-29.5. |
| 2000 | Zurich, Galerie Lutz & Thalmann, Wilfrid Moser. Face à face. Späte Pastelle im Dialog mit Bilder der 50er Jahren, 3.11.-9.12 |
| 2002 | Zurich, Galerie Lutz & Thalmann, Wilfrid Moser. Un mode de pierres. Steinbruche und Felslandschaften 1975-1991, 15.11.-21.12. Dusseldorf, Art Cologne, Galerie Strelow, Wilfrid Moser. Bilder der 60er Jahre, 15.11.-11.1.2003. |
| 2006 | Basel, Galerie Carzaniga, Wilfrid Moser, 6.5.-24.6. Dusseldorf, Galerie Strelow, Wilfrid Moser. Pariser Bilder, 24.11.-20.1.2007. |
| 2009 | Bern, Kunstmuseum, Wilfrid Moser. Wegzeichen – Eine Retrospektive, 6.3.-14.6. Locarno, Pinacoteca Casa Rusca, 19.7.-4.10. |
Group exhibitions
| 1949 | Zurich, Kunsthaus, Junge Zurcher Kunstler, 10.9.-9.10. |
| 1951 | Bern, Galerie Palette, 10 artistes d’aujourd’hui, 29.3.-24.4. Stockholm, Galerie Blanche, Six jeunes peintres de Paris, April |
| 1951 | Lausanne, Galerie d’art ancien et moderne, De l’art abstrait à l’expression naïve, 5.5.-30.5. Paris, Palais du Kursaal et Salles d’Exposition de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de la Résidence du Louvre, 1ère Biennale de peinture de France, 3.8. -1.10. |
| 1952 | Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, N allard, Fiorini, Moser, 10.10. -1.11. Zurich, Kunsthaus, Ein Querschnitt. Malerei in Paris – heute, 18.10.-23.12. Paris, Salle André Baugé, 1 er Salon d’octobre, Hommage à Marcel Duchamp, 24.10.-14.11. Zurich, Helmhaus, Zurcher Kunstler im Helmhaus, 29.11.-4.1. |
| 1953 | Paris, Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Prix Buhrle. Première Exposition, 5.-20.12. 1953 Aachen, Surmondt-Museum, Malerei von heute. Eine deutschjranz6sische Ausstellung, 10.5.-6.6. Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Bertholle – Bissière – Moser – Nallard – Reichel-Viera da Silva. Peintures et aquarelles, 13.6.-15.7. Paris, Centre Saint-Jacques, 10 peintres, 1 sculpteur, 24.6.-13.7. Zurich, Turnhalle Klingen, Kunstausstellung Zurich. Réveil, 3.-18.10. New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, News, 5.-24.10. Aix-La-Chapelle, Peinture d’aujourd’hui en France et en Allemagne / Duren / Köln Zurich, Galerie Chichio Haller, La Galerie J Bucher présente 6 peintres de Paris Madrid, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Arte abstracto |
| 1954 | Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Vielfaure, Fiorini, Moser, Chelimsky, Nallard, Louttre, 9.-28.2. Paris, Galerie Arnaud, Divergences, Juli-September 1955 Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Chelimsky, Nallard, Gillet, Moser, Louttre, Aguayo, 1.-19.2. Aachen, Suermondt Museum, Ausstellung Gemeinschqfi Junger Europiiischer Kunstler, Mai Paris, Petit Palais, Artistes étrangers en France, ab 10.6. Paris, Galerie Arnaud, Divergences 3, Juli-September Paris, Galerie Craven, Six peintres actuels, 22.10.-19.11. Mannheim, Stadtische Kunsthalle, 19 Französische Maler, 12.11.-4.12. Dusseldorf, Centre d’études francaises Dusseldorf, Ausstellung Gemeinschaft junger europaischer Kunstler |
| 1956 | Basel, Kunsthalle, 10 Zurcher Maler, 15.5.-24.6. Paris, Galerie Craven, 32 Peintres, 1.6.-31.7. Chavigny, Château d’Harcourt, 1ère exposition d’art contemporain de Chauvigny, 5.8.-15.9. Paris, Galerie 93,16 peintres de la jeune Ecole de Paris, 4.-29.12. Paris, Galerie Arnaud, divergences 4, 20.12.-9.1. |
| 1957 | Amiens, Musée, Permanence de l’Art 1957 Zurich, Kunsthaus, Collection Moltzau, 9.2. – 31.3. Kopenhagen / La Haye / Oslo, Kunstindustrimuseet, 10.6.-26.8. Paris, Louis Carré & Cie, Carrade, Lagage, Moser, Staritsky, Wessel, 12.4.-4.5. Paris, Galerie Creuze, 50 ans de peinture abstraite, 9.5.-12.6. Paris, Galerie Arnaud, Divergences 5, Juli-September Neuchâtel, Musée des Beaux-Arts, La peinture abstraite en Suisse, 15.9.-18.11 Zurich, Kunsthaus, Wolf Barth, Helen Dahm, Walter Helbig, Wilfried Moser, Charles Rollier, Gérard Vulliamy,21.12.-2.2. |
| 1958 | Paris, Galerie La Roue, Présence du blanc 1958 Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Ungegenstandliche Malerei in der Schweiz, 18.1.-9.3. Berlin, Kongress-halle, 2.4.-27.4. Linz, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum, 25 Jahre Zurcher Kunstankaufe, Mai-Juni Paris, XIV” Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Il.5.-01.06. Venedig, XXIX. Biennale, 14.6.-19.10. Paris, Galerie Arnaud, Divergences 6, Juni-September Charleroi, Palais des Expositions Charleroi, L Art du xXme, 5.7.-14.9. Paris, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, l3ème Salon des Réalité Nouvelles. 7.7.-3.8. Recklinghausen, Kunsthalle, 13. Salon ’58 Paris. Réalités Nouvelles. Nouvelles Réalités. 26.9.-5.10. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, The 1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting & Sculpture, 5.12.-8.2. |
| 1959 | Paris, Ambassade Suisse, Peintres, sculpteurs et architectes suisses, 6.-14.12. Mannheim, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Nouvelle Ecole de Paris – Franzosische Malerei der Gegenwart, 13.12.- l 8. 1.1959 Paris, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, 14ème Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, 6.-26.7. Bern, Kunsthalle, 4 Maler. Tàpies, Alechinsky, Messagier, Moser,26.9.-25.10. Sao Paulo, 5. Biennale, Sektion Schweiz, Art et Nature, September Zurich, Zurcher Kunstler im Helmhaus und Stadthaus, 8.11.-31.12. |
| 1960 | Paris, Galerie Raymonde Cazenave, Permanence et actualité de la peinture. 15 toiles choisies par R. V. Gindertael,25.3.-29.4. Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Hommage Jeanne Bucher. Rétrospective 1925-1960,6.5.-30.6. Paris, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, XVIe Salon de Mai, 8.-29.5. Zurich, Kunsthaus, Salon de Mai, Paris 1960, 11.6.-24.7. Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Ecole de Paris, 9.11.-Januar 1961 |
| 1961 | Paris, Salon d’Automne Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Kompas, Paris, Carrefour de la peinture, 9.12.-12.2.1962 |
| 1962 | Montrouge, Salle des fêtes, Peintres et sculpteurs actuels. Exposition ligne 4, 10.-27.5. Eindhofen, Stedelijk von abbe-museum, Eindhofen, 1945-1961. Schilders uit parijs /Paris, Carrefour de la culture Paris, Galerie XXe Siècle, Le Relief Dusseldorf, Galerie Ina Fuchs, Gillet, Moser, Nallard Paris, Salon d’Automne |
| 1963 | Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne, Collection Sonia Henie/Niels Onstad, 26.1.-24.2. Genf, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, 1er Salon International de Galeries Pilotes, 20.6.-22.9. Sao Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, 7. Biennale (mit Walter Linck und Rolf Iseli), September-Dezember Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Sculptures de peintres Torre Pellice, 14a Mostra d’Arte Contemporanea Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Ecole de Paris |
| 1964 | Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, L’art Suisse au XX’ siècle / Schweizer Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert, 30.4.-25.10. Genf, La Galerie arts et culture, Art suisse contemporain, Juli-September Saint-Etienne, Musée, 50 ans de collages |
| 1965 | Paris, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, 20éme Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, 5.-27.4. Zurich, Helmhaus, Zurcher Kunstler im Helmhaus, 27.11.-23.12. Bern, Kunstmuseum, 100 Jahre GSAMBA. Jublilaums-Ausstellung der Gesellschaft Schweizerischer Maler, Bildhauer und Architekten, 7.11.-19.12. Tokyo, Les Fauves / Kyoto Caen, Maison de la Culture, Exposition Galerie J. Bucher |
| 1966 | Basel, Kunsthalle, Zurcher Kunstler in der Kunsthalle, 6.1.-23.1. Pforzheim, Kunst- und Kunstgewerbeverein, Schweizer Malerei und Plastik 1945-1965, 13.2.-13.3. Koblenz, Mittelrhein-Museum, 3.4.-1.5. Kassel, Kasseler Kunstverein, 15.5.-12.6. 1966 Kaiserslautern, Pfalzische Landesgewerbeanstalt, 26.6.-24.7. Wuppertal, Kunst- und Museumsverein, Il.9.-16.10. Bremen, Kunsthalle, 6.11.-4.12. Menton, Biennale |
| 1967 | Schiedam, Stedelijk Museum, 8 peintres de Paris (Abboud, Debré, Karskaya, Messagier, MioUe, Moser, Nallard, Rebeyrolle), 26.4.-29.5 Genf, Musée Rath, Le visage de l’homme dans l’art contemporain, 1.7.-17.09. Havanna, Salon de mayo. Pabellon Cuba, Ausstellungshalle Havanna, Juli 1967 Paris, Musée Galliéra, Une aventure de l’art abstrait 1957-67, 15.9.-13.10. Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts / Brest / Orléans Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Le Portrait |
| 1968 | Paris, Hotel Drouot, Tableaux Modernes. Vente au profit des oeuvres sociales de la commission centrale de l’enfance, 17.5. Luzern, Kunstmuseum, Neue Formen expressionistischer Malerei seit 1950, 28.7.-22.9. Aarau, Kunsthaus, GSMBA, September-Oktober |
| 1969 | Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, L’heure du goémon, 7.-30.11. |
| 1970 | Basel, Kunsthalle, Das offene Museum – Die Stadt, 3.10.-22.11. |
| 1971 | Aarau, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Les Suisses de Paris, 13.3.-10.4. Bourges, Maison de la Culture, Peintres de Paris: Debré, Messagier, Miotte, Moser, Nallard, Rebeyrolle Tokyo, Salon d’Automne |
| 1972 | Zurich, Stadtische Kunstkammer zum Strauhof, Freiheit fur das griechische Volk. Kollektive Ausstellung Schweizer Kunstler zugunsten eines demokratischen Griechenlands, 18.4.-6.5. Bochum, Museum Bochum Kunstsammlung, Schweizer Kunst heute, 30.9.-19.11. Tel Aviv, Museum Tel Aviv, Art suisse contemporain, ab 28.11. Paris, Grand-Palais, L’Art Suisse contemporain /31 artistes Suisses |
| 1973 | Zurich, Galerie Scheidegger + Maurer, Samuel Buri, Annie Frey, Theo Gerber, Gottlieb Kurfiss, Wilfried Moser, Varlin, 18.1.-1.3. Thun, Kunstsammlung der Stadt Thun, Carl Liner, Wilfrid Moser, 3.2.-11.3. Bochum, Stadtisches Museum, Profile X Schweizer Kunst heute / Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum im Kunstlerhaus, Graz, 10.2.-11.3. Aarau, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Zurcher Kunstler, 8.9.-7.10. Budapest, Biennale |
| 1974 | Genf, 17 artistes suisses, 15.6.-15.9. |
| 1978 | Zurich, Kunsthaus, Beginn des Tachismus in der Schweiz, 27.1-12.3. |
| 1980 | Venedig, Schweizer Pavillon der Biennale, Wilfrid Moser. Peter Stein. Oscar Wiggli, 1.6.-28.9. Paris, Mairie annexe du 6e arrondissement, Peintres de l’Abstraction lyrique à Saint-Germain-des-Prés. 1946-1956,6.6.-5.7. |
| 1981 | Innsbruck, Tiroler Kunstpavillon, Zeichnungen von 13 Schweizer Bildhauern, 20.3.-12.4.1 Wien, Modern art Galerie, 14.5.-6.6. Klagenfurt, Karntner Landesgalerie, 24.6.-19.7. Zurich, Galerie Semiha Huber, Meister der lyrischen Abstraktion, ab 7.10 Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Dreissiger Jahre Schweiz. Ein Jahrzehnt im Widerspruch, 30.10.-10.1. |
| 1982 | Winterthur, Galerie ge, Skulpturen |
| 1984 | Paris, Le centre national des art plastique, Charles Estienne & l’art à Paris 1945-1966, 21.6.-2.9. Winterthur, Galerie ge in der Kunsthalle Waaghaus, JO Jahre Galerie ge (mit Ulrich Elsener, Bendicht Fivian, Hannes Vogel), 5.10.-17.11 Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Sur Invitation Clermont-Ferrand, Biennale du dessin 1985 Zurich, Graphik-Sammlung ETH, Neue Formen und Formulierungen. Ungegenstandliche und experimentelle Formulierungen, 30.7.-1.9. Heidelberg, Kunstverein, Der Baum, 27.9.-31.10. / Saarbrucken, Stadtgalerie Saarbrucken, 15.12.-23.2. |
| 1986 | Paris, Salon de Mai 1986 Karlsruhe, Stadtische Galerie im Prinz-Max-Palais, Konstruktion und Geste Schweizer Kunst der 50er Jahre, 12.4.-22.6. Munster, Westfalisches Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, 13.7.-7.9. Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen, 28.9.-23.11. Luzern, Galerie Fischer, Pioniere der Neuen Schweizer Malerei. 50 Jahre Schweizer Kunst, 9.8.-10.9. Brig und Visp, Galerie Zur Matze und Galerie Zur Schutzenlaube, Das Schweizer Aquarell, 28.9.-19.10. Winterthur, Galerie ge, Bilder, Zeichnungen 1987 Interlaken, Galerie, Kursaal / CC CI, Schweizer Aquarelle 1, 31.5.-26.6. |
| 1988 | Olten, Kunstmuseum, Copain Vincent. Van Goghs Einfluss auf Schweizer Kunstler, 28.5.-10.7. Zug, Kunsthaus, Holz 1. Vom Material zum Ausdruck. Holzschnitte und Holz, 19.6.-11.9. |
| 1992 | Paris, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, l’arrière-pays, 7.2.-28.3. Locarno, Pinacoteca comunale Casa Rusca, Arp e amici, 31.5.-16.8. Winterthur, Galerie ge, Zeichnungen von Schweizer Kunstlern |
| 1993 | Bonn, Galerie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Gegendruck. Schweizer Kunstlergraphik von Alberto Giacometti bis Urs Luthi, 4.3.-16.4. Innsbruck, Galerie im Taxispalais, 22.6.-6.8. Zurich, Graphische Sammlung der ETH, 25.8.-24.9. Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Kunstverein, Gesichte (Disler, Ikemura, Iseli, Kratzky, Melcher, Moser, Radelfinger, Raetz, Roesch, Scapa, Schifferle, Wick), 6.6.-15.8. Chur, Bundner Kunstmuseum, 4.2.-4.4.1994 |
| 1996 | Pully, Musée de Pully, 6x informel, 10.10.-9.2.1997 |
| 1997 | Paris, Galerie Jeanne-Bucher, Pour un jubilé: 1947-1997, 30.9.-6.10. |
| 1999 | Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Wilfrid Moser. Letzte Werke, Franz Fedier. Arbeiten aus den 60er Jahren, Karl Gerstner. Genesis 1962-1998,27.3.-29.5. Basel, Galerie Carzaniga + Ueker, Informelle Malerei der 50er und 60er Jahre, 12.8.-18.9. |
| 2002 | Paris, Galerie Jeanne-Bucher, Paysage, vue de l’esprit, 31.10.-30.11. |
| 2003 | Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz. Paris 1945-1965. Metropole der Kunst. Jahrezehnte des Aufbruchs. 11.12.2003-22.03.2004 |
| 2004 | Zurich, Galerie Renée Ziegler, They loved Paris in the fifties. Kunstler aus den USA und der Schweiz in Paris, 16.4.-3.7. |
| 2005 | Basel, Galerie Carzaniga, First Choice. From Private Collections. Von Arp bis Varlin. Lichtblicke aus Privatsammlungen,4.6.-16.7. Zurich, artebafineart, Moderne Schweizer Kunst. 25 Orginalwerke, 5.12.-24.2.2006. |
| 2006 | Zurich, Galerie Lutz & Thalmann, Urban rhythm, 16.6.-22.7. |
| 2007 | Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Musée de Gajac, L’action pensive, 22.2.-20.4. Saint-Louis, Espace d’art contemporain Fernet-Branca, Faces à faces. La peinture en question, 9.6.-14.10. |
| 2008 | Basel, Galerie Carzaniga, First Choice. From Private Collections IV, 19.1.-1.3. Zug, Kunsthaus Zug, Die Sammlung, erweitert, 6.7.-31.8. |
| 2009 | Bellinzona, Museo Villa dei Cedri, Arte e Natura, 5.4 .-28.6. |
| Musée d’art de Sion. Explosions lyriques. La peinture abstraite en Suisse 1950-1065. 14.11.2009-11.04.2010 |
Biennials
| Venedig / Venise | |
| 1958 | XXIXème Biennale, Pavillon Suisse, 14.6.-19.10. |
| 1980 | XLème Biennale, Pavillon Suisse, 1.6.-28.9. |
| Sao Paulo | |
| 1959 | 5. Biennale, Museu de Arte Moderna, Art et Nature, September |
| 1963 | 7. Biennale, September-Dezember |
