Max Bucherer was the youngest brother of Carl Friedrich Bucherer and was to follow an artistic career. His life’s work achieved acclaim between 1963 and 1966. Admirers and critics began to appreciate him above all in 1960. Best known are certainly his wood carvings, tender pictures of lyrical landscapes full of quiet poetry.

Mabu, as his friends called him, completed a course in graphics in Munich before moving to Paris.1905 he turned his back on this and settled in the Bodensee area on the artistic peninsular of Höri, which at the time had developed into a small artist community, where he also pursued close contacts with Hermann Hesse.

Over 60 years later, Mabu, in his artist’s hermitage in the Ticino border town of Porto Ronco looks out over Lake Maggiore and back over his life. He has explored many more horizons, whether as war illustrator working for Austria, as teacher in Munich and Zurich or as traveller in search of inspiration, which he found in particular in North Africa. Wood carving remained his passion till 1974 when he pasted away in the age of 91 years.