Martin Disler

Martin Disler was a self-taught Swiss artist whose paintings, drawings, sculpture, and writing is most readily associated with the German “Neue Wilde” style of painting as well as the Brut tradition and the European CoBrA avant-garde movement of the mid-20th century. Deeply psychological, Disler’s expressionistic compositions are particularly suggestive of the human figure, as they convey scenes of social, political, and personal turmoil. Disler achieved such pictures through the employment of stark black as well as bright, intense colors, applied with quick, lively brushstrokes.

In 1982, Disler was shown in documenta 7. His work has been exhibited widly, and is included in the Tate collection in London.