At the forefront of the New York artworld in less than ten years after his 1933 arrival in the United States, German-born artist Hans Moller (1904-2000) invoked a strength and determination to discover the art of his new homeland. The opportunities for him in America were legion. He vigorously explored stylistic variations on the avant garde movements that had been so vehemently rejected by the rising Third Reich in Nazi Germany. During those early American years before he broke away to try the tempers of New York critics and the gallery scene, Moller had been hired as a graphics designer within a week after landing in New York, and in the 1940's he taught art classes at Cooper Union. More significantly, he found financial stability in his experiments with Surrealsim from 1943 to the early 1950s. With an oeuvre of over 1,300 oil paintings, watercolors, and collages, Hans Moller left a legacy to the devotees of his art and to a history of life confined to the making of it. His exibitions sold out each year spreading among a large group of collectors the bulk of his production. The museum world was to benefit from Moller's presence with a few paintings granted over the years by purchases and gifts. Though numerous small exhibitions regularly explored his current year's work, the large analytical retrospective was not to take place until after his death in the year 2000 at age 95. Hans Moller. Glowing Horizon. 1969. oil on canvas, 45 x 60" Estate of the Artist.