Initially Heinz Moser's work as an artist was independent of his career as an architect,
but ultimately his artistic work moved ever closer to his architecture. The very first
public exhibition of his artistic oeuvre heralded its synthesis with Moser's architecture.
The architect's experiences with space, shape, color and materials also benefit the
artist; inversely, the trend toward executing sculptures as usable structures sensitizes
us to the sculptural quality of buildings actually realized.

Heinz Moser was initially a painter, often implying explicitly political statements (which
he accords a special and marginal role in his own work), in the surrealistic style
popular at the time. This heritage resonates today in his work. For, in fact, this work
was liberated from objectivity in a radical break, dissolving almost abruptly in abstract-
expressive explosions of color. Although his paintings initially were still quite pictorially
conceived, they soon showed a tendency toward spatial effects and in the end actually
protruded into space. The architect in the artist also shines through in the way he puts
his sculptures together. Rather than building them from the ground up, he assembles



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