Join us to celebrate the opening of the exhibition ‘Richard Paul Lohse’ at Hauser & Wirth Basel.

Tickets are free, with no advance booking required.

About Richard Paul Lohse
Richard Paul Lohse was not just a painter—he was a thinker, designer and activist who shaped the visual culture of post-war Europe. Seeing visual communication as a tool for social change, Lohse was politically active in the 1930s and later joined the resistance during World War II. In 1937, together with Leo Leuppi, he founded ‘Allianz, Vereinigung moderner Schweizer Künstler,’ which defined Swiss concrete art. He was involved with leading modernist figures such as Jean Arp, Georges Vantongerloo, Le Corbusier, Antoine Pevsner and Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, whose ideas shaped his approach to abstraction. As editor of ‘werk, bauen + wohnen’ (1947–1956) and co-founder of ‘Neue Grafik’ (1958–1965), he influenced the postwar dialogue between art, graphic design and technology, bridging the gap between industrial precision and avant-garde aesthetics.